The opposition Alliance for Serbia said on Tuesday that the date of possible early elections is not important unless the current conditions are changed.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said after Monday’s meeting of his ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) presidency that a decision on early elections is closer than before but did not specify any possible date.  

The opposition has demanded fair conditions for elections, including at least six to nine months of unbiased media coverage, or else they will boycott them. “Will the voters be given a choice or will they be elections under Vucic’s rules with voters being blackmailed, scared, intimidated and harrased,” Democratic Party MP Aleksandra Jerkov said.  

The SNS presidency did not take the decision to call early elections because Vucic said he was opposed to the idea. According to SNS presidency member, deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic, the president “has much more information in regard to developments in Kosovo and everything that is happening to the country”.  

Internal Affairs Minister and SNS presidency member Nebojsa Stefanovic said the first realistic date for early parliamentary elections is in June but he added that they might even be held in March next year. “We’ll see in the next 20 or so days,” he said.  

Vucic said he had been given support by the SNS presidency to refuse to talk to opposition leaders and Stefanovic said that the authorities won’t meet a single opposition condition.