Vučić said that the SNS will hold a rally in Belgrade on Vidovdan or before, but did not want to say when the elections will be held.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić announced today that the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) will hold a large rally in Belgrade, on St. Vid's Day (June 28), or before, and that the same will be the case in some other cities.

"It will be a time of important and big decisions for the citizens of Serbia, but whether it will be elections or something else, that's for later," Vučić said in Paris, ahead of the International Conference on Global Politics, not wanting to announce when the elections will be held.

He stated that "the gathering was registered legally, as it is done", and that "it has become strange when someone does things legally because they are used to everyone coming wherever they want, however they want, doing whatever they want and occupying space, roads, streets".

When asked if he was afraid of a political showdown with the rector of the University of Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, he said that Đokić has "foreign financial support", that "the help is from a huge media, regional, European, global machinery", and that he was "built by Europe and the entire West".

"It's not a question of whether we will say anything bad about that man, he spoke best about himself in the previous period and everything he did to the University, against our children and students," Vučić said.

"People will have the opportunity to choose between Mr. Djokic. Whether it will be me, whether it will be someone else from the non-party figures or a party figure - we will still make a decision on that. In any case, Mr. Djokic is currently in the lead, he is the only one who is a safe candidate and the only one who has unequivocal and enormous support from both the European Union and many others from outside," Vučić added.