Vučić: If the student list were in the polls, it would have 20 percent, to the detriment of the opposition

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said today that if the "student list" of candidates for the elections were an option for response in public opinion polls, where it is currently absent because it has not been officially presented, it would have around 20 percent support, to the detriment of opposition parties.

"They would have more than those eight percent (according to the Ipsos survey in which respondents spontaneously mentioned it), if they appeared with that name 'Student List'. But at the expense of these others (the opposition), and you would immediately fall for Manojlović, Đilas and everyone else. If they appear with their own list, and not on a spontaneous response, they will go to 20 or so percent, but everyone else will disappear from their side," Vučić told Pink television.

According to him, the "student list" cannot be offered in public opinion polls because it does not yet exist.

"It is impossible for you to do that, just as you cannot do the Movement for the People and the State, when people do not yet know what and who it will be composed of and who will be in that movement," Vučić added.

According to him, the only thing that is clear is that people who vote for his, now ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), will not vote for the "student list".

"Because such a shift has been made, ours towards them and theirs towards us, that there is no interference there, not even one percent," he said.

Speaking about the request for early elections, Vučić reiterated that they will be in accordance with the Constitution and laws, and ahead of schedule.

"When, before the deadline - when we consider it good for these elections to be held, to complete big jobs, big things (...) It will always be in accordance with the Constitution and laws, we will not be fooling around, we will not interpret that this mandate was or was not mine, as some others have done before," Vučić said.