Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said today that elections will be held "in the next year and a half," and that they will be called when "the competent institutions make a decision on that."
Vučić said that so far he has not received a request from any "competent" institution to call early parliamentary elections, neither in written nor oral form.
"I am always ready to consider all requests. There will be elections in the next year and a half when the competent institutions make a decision on this, not non-competent organizations that do not have any prerogatives of government to decide on this," Vučić said in Tirana, where he is attending the European Political Community (EPC) summit.
Previously, some students in the blockade announced the radicalization of the protests if early elections were not called by mid-May.
"As for radicalization, everyone has their own way. The fewer there are, the greater the nervousness will be. Back on December 11, I said that they would not accept the fulfillment of the demands, that these were just tricks and that politics and a colored revolution were hidden behind it. Now we have realized that it was all politics," Vučić said.
He assessed that this was "the naked, worst kind of politics" that, in his words, had entered universities in Serbia.
"There should be no politics at universities, everything they do is against the law," Vučić added.
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