Vucic offers anti-anxiety drug to N1 reporter

The Serbian President was asked why his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) is handing out medication, including probiotics and he replied that he does not know what SNS local branches are handing out.”I congratulate them if they’ve come up with something smart to give to people, but I really know nothing about it,” he said and offered the Bromazepam anti-anxiety drug to N1’s reporter Zaklina Tatlovic “so you can handle (the election results) more easily.”

Vucic also denied taking part in the election campaign but said that supports the Serbia Must Not Stop election ticket that bears his name “with all my heart.” Asked by Tatalovic about his involvement in the campaign his reply was: “so you can rejoice”.

“Seriously. Because I know that you say I am the worst, that I therefore help those you support. I am doing my job here today as the president of all citizens, but I support the Serbia Must Not Stop ticket with all my heart,” he said.

Vucic cited a law stipulating that state officials running in elections are not allowed to open works or newly built facilities a months prior to the elections. He was in the city of Sabac to visit the construction site of a highway section. “According to him, the law “only applies to whose who are candidates on election tickets, and I am not a candidate”. “I asked them to take down the speakers’ platform so I wouldn’t open anything but just come to tour the place, and show the people what it is that we do.”

The President claimed that he “not only abides by the law but even went beyond that.”

“I stuck to a fair, decent relationship, to show everyone that, if someone what to create fear conditions, they can, but forbidding me to live, forbidding me to do my job…In the next 14, 17 days, which is how long we have left until the beginning of the blackout period, I will go abroad twice, for two, three days at a time at least. So, I’ll be here another seven, eight days and I will use all that time, as much as I can – that has nothing to do with this, I'm talking about the rallies - to help the Serbia Must Not Stop election ticket.

Vucic was also asked why he refers to United Group co-owner Dragan Solak as a criminal, and what evidence he has to back up that claim.“You’re right, I will have to pay attention to my vocabulary and only call criminals those who have been convicted, in future I will say that I have suspicions and that I think he is a big-time criminal.”