Serbian Leader Vows to Create Pro-European Cabinet at End of May
- Premier Vucic's Progressives win nearly 50 percent of vote
- Progressives pledge to reform economy after decades of delay
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Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said his Progressive party would form a new pro-European government at the end of next month, capitalizing on a snap election victory that has handed him four more years in power.
Vucic’s party won 131 of parliament’s 250 seats, a smaller majority than it achieved two years ago. Before the vote, he pledged to form a coalition government to continue a painful economic overhaul endorsed by the International Monetary Fund. The Progressives will hold a congress on May 28, and “we expect that a new cabinet will be formed immediately after that,” the premier told reporters in Belgrade on Monday.