Serbian presidential election, 2 April 2017

[mgop]

Election again in Serbia. President Nikolic will not run for re-election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_presidential_election,_2017

[mgop]

Most likely winner is Aleksandar Vucic, who is a member of the SNS and has been Prime Minister since 2014 (under president Nikolic).

yeah he controls all media but there probably will be second round and you never know 'one on one'

[mgop]

Does the President of Serbia actually do anything, or is it more of a “ribbon cutter in chief” type of role?

president role is largely ceremonial like in germany but vucic wants to control everything, so if he wins he will put puppet prime minister and if he loses he will remain prime minster because he didn't resign

[mgop]

Most likely winner is Aleksandar Vucic, who is a member of the SNS and has been Prime Minister since 2014 (under president Nikolic).

yeah he controls all media but there probably will be second round and you never know 'one on one'

Vucic is at 52.3% in the latest Ipsos poll and his opponents on around 40% combined. I see no reason why there should be a 2nd round. The moment Nikolic gave up this seized to be a competitive election.

and ipsos is famous for predicting good. in 2012 they said tadic 58% nikolic 42% guess who won...

[mgop]

all hail to the pro-western soft-autocrat.

soft lol he controls all tv stations and news papers, and about being pro-western, you realise that you talking about former radical and he still have support from russia as much as from west. there is two normal opposition candidates jankovic (former ombudsman) and jeremic (former un chairman and finished second behind gutieres in un election last year), both 'pro-western', but opposition parties cant decide who to support.