SNS List: Candidates From Nis, Leskovac, Vranje

The Republic Election Commission certified the “Aleksandar Vucic, United Serbia” list, submitted by the coalition built around the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). The list carries 250 candidates for the National Assembly and will hold ballot position number one at the early parliamentary elections on October 25.

The top names on the list, such as Milos Vucevic and Ana Brnabic, were already known when it was filed, but on September 13 and 14 local media began sorting the remaining candidates by city across southern Serbia. Those breakdowns show who filled out the list below the top positions: directors of public companies and institutions, municipal presidents and sitting lawmakers.

In brief:

• The “Aleksandar Vucic, United Serbia” list has 250 candidates and holds ballot position number one.
• Nine candidates come from Nis, three from Leskovac, and five from the Pcinja District.
• The elections are set for October 25, 2026.

Who are the candidates from Nis?

Nine names on the list are tied to Nis. The highest ranked is professor Goran Stanojevic, PhD, in 25th place, followed by lawyer Uros Radulovic (35th), communications specialist Vanja Stojkovic (109th) and computer engineering technician Nikola Mladenovic (134th).

Further down come pharmacy specialist Svetlana Milijic (138th), lawyers Tijana Djordjevic Ilic (171st) and Lazar Petrovic (211th), then Natasa Stankovic, also a lawyer, in 215th place, and student Zeljko Zdravkovic in 249th place.

The list also includes Milija Miletic, president of the United Peasant Party and a veterinary technician from Svrljig, in 96th place. His party is part of the coalition gathered around SNS, which is why his name is grouped with the Nis-area candidates even though Svrljig administratively belongs to the Nis District as a separate town.

Leskovac gets just three spots

Unlike Nis, Leskovac is represented on the list by only three candidates, a point the local outlet Resetka singled out in its report. The highest ranked is Kristina Vasiljkovic in 74th place, head of the Department for Citizen Services and president of the Women’s Forum of the SNS City Board in Leskovac.

In 97th place is Predrag Momcilovic, director of the Leskovac Center for Social Work, while sitting lawmaker Sanja Milosevic comes in at only 230th, considerably lower than in the outgoing parliament.

Pcinja District: public company directors on the list

From the Pcinja District, covering Vranje, Trgoviste and Vladicin Han, the list carries five candidates. The highest ranked is Goran Nikolic, director of the Vranje power distribution company, in 60th place. He also served as a lawmaker in the outgoing parliament.

Vranje lawyer Dragan Nikolic Nika holds 126th place and, like Nikolic, has already sat in parliament. The third sitting lawmaker from the area is Nenad Krstic from Donji Stajevac near Trgoviste, president of the Trgoviste Municipal Assembly, in 108th place.

Two names from the Pcinja District are new to the national list: Goran Mladenovic, president of the Vladicin Han municipality, in 155th place, and Marija Petkovic, executive director of the Vranje public water utility, in 169th place.

What comes next

The same pattern repeats across all three cities: local officials and directors of public companies fill out the middle and lower part of the list, while the top thirty or so spots belong to party leadership and well known public figures. Unlike this outlet’s earlier report on Seselj’s son, Zeljko Rebraca and Branislav Lecic at the top of the list, this rundown shows what the list looks like on the ground, in the cities of southern Serbia.

Before the October 25 elections, campaign funds still need to be distributed, and in some cases it is still an open question whether local officials who enter parliament will also keep their municipal posts. The Republic Election Commission has not yet published the full list of all 250 names, so the candidates’ profile keeps taking shape city by city, as local media report it.