{"id":33765,"date":"2022-03-31T20:13:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T18:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=33765"},"modified":"2022-03-31T21:18:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T19:18:06","slug":"pre-election-polls-predict-vucic-as-winner-in-serbias-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/pre-election-polls-predict-vucic-as-winner-in-serbias-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-election polls predict Vucic as winner in Serbia\u2019s elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-election polls predicted President Aleksandar Vucic\u2019s Serbian Progressive Party as the frontrunner in the general elections.<\/p>\n<p>However, an overwhelming majority in parliament is highly unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>According to a poll published on Wednesday by daily tabloid Blic, Vucic is set to sweep 53% of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>The Alliance for Victory, a coalition of various opposition parties, is expected to come in second with 13.7% of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>Now a pro-European politician, Vucic made his way into politics as an ultranationalist back in the 90s, a time when Serbia carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign against Bosnians, Croatians, and Kosovo Albanians.<\/p>\n<p>However, critics maintain that his popularity comes from his authoritarian leadership style, which includes strict media control and the employment of his close supporters in public offices.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia\u2019s opposition parties claim that the elections will be manipulated and that fictitious persons are being added to electoral lists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/03\/25\/russias-interest-in-the-balkans-will-be-amplified-through-serbia-says-former-pm\/\">Russia\u2019s interest in the Balkans will be amplified by Serbia, says former PM<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/balkans\/2022\/03\/22\/montenegro-refuses-to-open-up-polling-stations-during-serbias-elections\/\">Montenegro refuses to open up polling stations for Serbia\u2019s elections<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-election polls predicted President Aleksandar Vucic\u2019s Serbian Progressive Party as the frontrunner in the general elections. However, an overwhelming majority in parliament is highly unlikely. According to a poll published on Wednesday by daily tabloid Blic, Vucic is set to sweep 53% of the votes. The Alliance for Victory, a coalition of various opposition parties, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":33766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[348,151,450,301,1073,787],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pre-election polls predict Vucic as winner in Serbia\u2019s elections - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/pre-election-polls-predict-vucic-as-winner-in-serbias-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pre-election polls predict Vucic as winner in Serbia\u2019s elections - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pre-election polls predicted President Aleksandar Vucic\u2019s Serbian Progressive Party as the frontrunner in the general elections. 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