The Vice-President of the Government of Serbia and the Minister of Defense of that country, Miloš Vučević, confirmed today that he has been elected as the President of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).
After the SNS assembly session in Kragujevac, Vučević announced that the party will take part in the formation of the People's Movement for the State.
"The SNS supported the proposal of the former president of the party and the president of the state (Aleksandar Vučić) to take part in the formation of the People's Movement, and I think that you will be able to see much more concretely at the end of June, in that matter," said Vučević.
According to him, he expects that a new party leadership will be elected on June 24.
"Then, I believe, by the end of June, we would have joined a large, patriotic people's movement. A movement that we understand as a call and strengthening of that political front for the defense of our homeland in very difficult times," said Vučević.
He thanked Vučić for his support for his candidacy for SNS president, stating that this is not a discontinuity but that they are "opening a new chapter in their book".
"Our policy will not change. We remain a party that is the engine of the development of our homeland, but also a party that preserves and nurtures the traditional values of the Serbian people, of all citizens of Serbia," Vučević said.
He pointed out that SNS will be the most reliable partner for the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić.
Vučić: I will never leave the party
Vučić announced earlier today that he will propose Vučević as the leader of SNS.
At the beginning of the extraordinary SNS Assembly in Kragujevac, Vučić said that he would never leave the party, but that it was time to leave its leadership.
"I love this party too much. This party, along with my children, is my life. I will never leave this party," said Vučić.
Biography of Miloš Vucevic
Serbian Defense Minister Miloš Vučević, who was elected today as the president of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), has been active on the Serbian political scene for many years.
Vučević, who was proposed as the president of the SNS by the former leader of the progressives, Aleksandar Vučić, becomes the head of the party after seven months of ministerial mandate and ten years spent as the mayor of Novi Sad.
He was born on December 10, 1974 in Novi Sad, where he finished elementary school. He attended high school in Bački Petrovac, and graduated in 1999 at the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad.
He practiced law from 1999 to 2012 in the family law office.
In May 2000, he became a member of the Serbian Radical Party, from which he transferred to the Serbian Progressive Party in 2008, immediately after its founding.
He has been at the head of the Novi Sad board of SNS since 2011, and will become one of the vice-presidents of SNS in November 2021.
He was elected mayor of Novi Sad in September 2012, after which he stopped working as a lawyer.
He was twice re-elected mayor of Novi Sad, after the local elections in 2016 and 2020.
He was elected as a member of the Serbian Parliament for the first time in the 2020 elections, but soon resigned from that position.
He also became a deputy in last year's elections, when he was 15th on the list of Vučić's coalition.
He is the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Serbia and the Minister of Defense from October 26, 2022.
He was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Alliance for Local Economic Development (NALED) from 2015 to 2016.
He is the recipient of several awards, including the award for the promotion of European values of life in Novi Sad in 2014. He is religious and holds several awards from the Serbian Orthodox Church. He is married and has two sons. He speaks English.
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