The elections have not yet been announced, but the public has been speculating for months when they could be held. According to the latest announcements by the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić can be expected in October or November.
Anyway, Serbian Progressive Party campaign started a long time ago.
The Office for Cooperation with the Media of the President of the Republic announced that Vučić will be in the southwest of the country on Monday and Tuesday, August 10 and 11.
The cameras of Informer, Pink, Prva, B92... will follow him closely.
Faster, stronger, more expensive
Vučić started his visit to the southwest of Serbia this morning at the "Srce kamene gora" rural tourist farm in Prijepolje, then visited the finishing works at the "Čarolija" kindergarten, and after that the new painting and sandblasting plant in Priboj, where he visited the works on the construction of the new Serbian Army barracks, and then the biomass boiler house in Nova Varoš.
Then he will head to the village of Radijevići, where he will meet the Purić family with eight children. At the end of this day, a tour of the final works on the ring road around Zlatibor and works on the construction of sports fields is planned.
Photo: Tanjug/Saška DrobnjakProgressive Party gathering in Bečej
Unlike the tent parties organized by the Serbian Progressive Party throughout Serbia, this time Vučić, the SNS candidate for prime minister in the yet-to-be-announced elections, is touring the country in a slightly more reduced format.
Political speeches at gatherings of progressives have so far been accompanied by baking, songs and rounds.
Bečej, Topola, Futog, Gajdobra, Odžaci, Žitište, Valjevo, Loznica are just some of the places visited by the progressive caravan.
Among the officials of the ruling party, the most regular guest at party gatherings is SNS president Miloš Vučević, but there are also ministers Siniša Mali, Zlatibor Lončar, Bratislav Gašić, Darko Glišić, etc.
Aleksandar Vučić himself often appeared.
Photo: FoNet/Instagram milosvucevicMiloš Vučević in Ribare near Jagodina at the end of July 2026.
"It will be a hot summer, and it will be an interesting autumn, but it will be a nice New Year when we defeat them and when we show them that we just want to live normally and that there are more of us," Glišić said at one such gathering in Valjevo, where Era Ojdanić entertained the attendees with his music.
It was also announced that Vučić, who has been sparting Serbia and Republika Srpska in turbo-drive for months with his presidential entourage, will go to the campaign "as an ordinary citizen", which is still not entirely clear what that means. The president didn't want to reveal much about it, but he once said that "you won't believe it when you see it."
"It will be strange for you, probably for me too. If you think that there will be gatherings like this, so be it. We will have it there until September, and then everything will be different. I can't reveal all the details, but you won't be bored," said Vučić.
Photo: PHOTO TANJUG/ JADRANKA ILICAleksandar Vučić also visited Lapovo this summer
What do the public opinion polls say, can the progressives pay off all that roasted pig in the fall, or do they have to change their strategy?
What do the citizens say?
Two public opinion polls, conducted less than a month apart, about who would get more votes in the elections give two mutually exclusive results. The results of the research conducted by Faktor plus and CRTA this summer are drastically different.
On the twenty-fourth of June of this year, Faktor plus published a survey conducted on a sample of 1.200 adult citizens, a field survey, and it shows that the SNS would win the most votes in the elections. According to them, the progressives would win 47 percent of the votes, and the second strongest political force would be the student list with 30 percent of the votes.
Another study, conducted by the CRTA organization in cooperation with the Stanford University Democracy Laboratory, shows a different picture. 45 percent of voters would vote for the student list, and 36 percent for SNS. CRTA announced the results of the survey conducted on a sample of 2.324 respondents using the face-to-face method on July 15 of this year.
NSPM research gives the student list a slight advantage (39,6 percent) over SNS (37,5 percent).
Photo: Ognjen Stevanović/FoNetStand of students in the blockade to inform citizens
The last major survey this summer, published by the International Republican Institute (IRI) from Washington, and reported by the Contemporary Politics portal, says that to the question "If students were to form their own electoral list, would you consider voting for it", 46 percent of citizens answered that they would, and 40 percent that they would not.
The results of the survey also show that to the question "If the elections were held on Sunday, how likely would you vote", 68 percent of the respondents answered that they would "very likely" vote, and another 15 percent that they would "probably" vote.
This survey was conducted in May and June on a sample of 1502 respondents, using a combined method, where 75 percent of respondents were interviewed by phone and 25 percent online.
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