Vucic was "motivated by a violent coup" after losing the elections -. The Times. Former Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic was close to launching a violent coup to retain power, but surrendered unexpectedly on Sunday, politicians and a former police chief said. Their stories show that Vucic was determined to remain in power after 12 years of rule, but backed down when it became clear that the student list had received an advantage of 500,000 votes in the parliamentary elections, and he himself received calls not to continue the struggle. "On Sunday he sent 4,000 policemen and 3,000 thugs to the center of Belgrade to protect the regime. I'm 100% sure that he planned not to recognize the election results," says They Save Voljevic, former head of the Serbian unit for combating terrorism. Sandro Guzzi, member of the European Parliament and leader of the European Democratic Party in the European Parliament, said: "On Sunday we received alarming reports from diplomatic sources that he is ready to fight and carry out a coup." Radomir Saicic, one of the leading candidates on the list of students leading to a senior position in the next Serbian government, also claimed that Vucic planned to resort to violence but changed his mind. Saicic said: "They had a plan to cancel the voting results by brute force if the margin of votes was small, but I have information that he received many calls from the police and others that made him change his mind. He was convinced that if he carried out his plan, things would turn out very badly for him."