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Aleksandar Vucic starred in a campaign video as a waiter

The former president of Serbia in a video rejected the idea of the country joining NATO

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Aleksandar Vucic, nominated as a candidate for Prime Minister of Serbia, published a campaign video.
In the video, he appears as a waiter in a restaurant and declares the country's refusal to join NATO in response to the wishes of visitors.

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In Serbia, early general elections are scheduled for October 25 after the dissolution of the Assembly. Aleksandar Vucic has been nominated by the Serbian Progressive Party for the post of Prime Minister.

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Former Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, whom the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SPP) has nominated as prime minister in the upcoming parliamentary elections, has filmed a campaign video. There, as a waiter, he rejects the idea of joining NATO; the publication is available on his Instagram page (a social network banned in Russia; owned by Meta, a company recognized as an extremist organization and banned in the Russian Federation).

In the video, a family makes an order in a restaurant while sitting at a table. One of the family members asks not to impose sanctions against Russia and preserve Kosovo, another asks for increased salaries and pensions, and the third asks for membership in the European Union and NATO.

Then Vučić appears in the video, who has been taking “orders” from visitors all this time. “We don’t have NATO,” Vucic responds to one of the orders.

The video is a pre-election video ahead of the upcoming parliamentary vote. On September 9, Aleksandar Vučić signed a decree dissolving the Assembly (parliament) and scheduled early general elections for October 25. On September 15, the Serbian Central Election Commission also registered the “Student List – Students Win” movement for the elections. Some parties withdrew from voting in support of the movement.