Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said on Monday in Budapest that only those who win the elections can form the new Serbian government.
"So, win the elections and form the Government," Vučić said, in response to the assessment of the "Proglas" Citizens' Initiative that forming an interim Government could be "a reasonable and less painful way out of the crisis."
For three months now, protests have been taking place in Serbia, organized by students and other Serbian citizens, who are demanding responsibility for the collapse of a concrete slab at the Novi Sad Railway Station, which left 15 people dead and two others seriously injured.
Miloš Vučević resigned as prime minister on January 28 in response to the protests. However, students have vowed to continue their protests.
Vučić in Budapest, where he was honored with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, repeated that some external factors have attempted to organize a "color revolution" in Serbia, but did not mention anything specifically.
"I am almost certain that we have overcome that external challenge," the Serbian president said, among other things.
He also thanked Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who, according to him, "condemned the attempted color revolution in Serbia," saying that "Russia knows what this looks like."
Lavrov, during a meeting with Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Djuric in Moscow, said that Russia condemns the interference of other countries, especially Western ones, in Serbia's internal political processes.
The "color revolution" actually refers to changes in authoritarian regimes in the former Soviet Union, such as the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004-2005.
Vučić announced that on Tuesday, February 18, there will be important meetings in Belgrade regarding the Oil Industry of Serbia (NIS), on which the United States has imposed sanctions due to Russian ownership, but did not specify with whom he will talk.
Asked if he expects the new US administration to reverse the decision on sanctions against NIS, he said he is not sure.
"I'm not sure the Americans will change this so easily, but it would be logical and I hope so," he said.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that both Serbia and Hungary have achieved important results despite "pressure from civil society organizations."
The two leaders reiterated once again that relations between Serbia and Hungary are friendly. REL
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