Vucevic, Brnabic React to Student List Snub of Serbian List
The president of the SNS and the caretaker Speaker of Parliament responded after the Student List said it will not cooperate with the Serbian List in Kosovo and Metohija.
Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) president Milos Vucevic and caretaker Speaker of the National Assembly Ana Brnabic responded on November 8 to the Student List’s refusal to cooperate with the Serbian List in Kosovo and Metohija. Vucevic did so on Instagram, Brnabic on the social network X.
The trigger was a statement by Jugoslav Gasic of the Student List, who said the list will not work with the Serbian List, as we reported on November 8. Novosti and Kurir carried the reactions of the two officials.
What did Vucevic say?
On Instagram, Vucevic called it incredible that the Serbian List is being blamed for the poor position of Serbs, while Gasic’s statements make no mention at all of the prime minister of the provisional institutions in Pristina, Albin Kurti. He warned that this could be a clear signal of the Student List’s future policy toward Kosovo and Metohija.
In the post, he wrote:
I fear that betrayal is coming too. Contrary to the expectations of most people that change would bring better news for Serbia, especially when it comes to KiM, even worse and harder circumstances can be expected.
Vucevic did not say which specific moves his warning about harder circumstances refers to.
What does Brnabic say about support for the Serbian List?
Brnabic wrote on X that the Student List has now repeated for the third day in a row that it rejects any cooperation with the Serbian List. In her words, the only person who shares that position is Kurti, while the entire international community communicates and cooperates with the Serbian List.
She justified her support for the list with percentages:
The Serbian List enjoys the support of 94% of Serbs in KiM (results of the latest elections).
She also stated that the Aleksandar Vucic - Serbia United list won 72 percent of the votes of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija in the latest elections, and the Student List 21 percent. Neither Novosti nor Kurir says where those figures come from, so they remain her claim.
Brnabic also put a question to the Student List: why does it refuse to cooperate with Dr Zlatan Elek and Dr Dragisa Milovic of the Serbian List, yet wants to cooperate with Nenad Rasic, a minister in Kurti’s government. In the same post she concluded that it is “now clear why they had Kurti’s support in the elections.”
Near the end of the post, she added:
Now the revenge of the Student List awaits them, along with the act of gratitude they owe to Albin Kurti. Hard times are ahead of our people, but in the end, Serbia will win.
What does the Student List say about it?
The Novosti and Kurir articles carry no response from the Student List to these reactions. There are also no statements from Rasic, Elek or Milovic, whom Brnabic named. Until one of them speaks up, all that is on the table is Gasic’s earlier message and the two posts written in reply to it.
The two outlets also describe Brnabic differently: Novosti calls her the Speaker of the Assembly, while Kurir calls her the caretaker Speaker. It is the same person and the same post on X, and the only difference is the title attached to her name.
