The Times: Vucic shuns coup after election defeat Aleksandar Vucic was prepared to hold on to power by force but backed down unexpectedly on Sunday, according to Serbian politicians and a former senior police officer. According to the Times' interlocutors, the decisive factor was the advantage of the "student list" of 500 thousand votes and calls not to continue the struggle. The former head of Serbia's counter-terrorism unit, They Save Voljevic, said Sucic sent 4,000 police and 3,000 supporters to central Belgrade to prevent a power shift. The student list candidate, Radomir Sajic, claims that the plan to cancel the voting results was forcibly changed after calls from the police and other structures. Vucic conceded defeat 90 minutes after the polls closed. According to unconfirmed rumors, former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán could have influenced him. Voljevic also suggests that Vucic received calls from European governments, but MP Sandro Guzzi believes that the result of the vote itself was surprising to him.

The Times: Vucic shuns coup after election defeat Aleksandar Vucic was prepared to hold on to power by force but backed down unexpectedly on Sunday, according to Serbian politicians and a former senior police officer. According to the Times' interlocutors, the decisive factor was the advantage of the "student list" of 500 thousand votes and calls not to continue the struggle. The former head of Serbia's counter-terrorism unit, They Save Voljevic, said Sucic sent 4,000 police and 3,000 supporters to central Belgrade to prevent a power shift. The student list candidate, Radomir Sajic, claims that the plan to cancel the voting results was forcibly changed after calls from the police and other structures. Vucic conceded defeat 90 minutes after the polls closed. According to unconfirmed rumors, former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán could have influenced him. Voljevic also suggests that Vucic received calls from European governments, but MP Sandro Guzzi believes that the result of the vote itself was surprising to him.