Vucicevic's Son Placed 29th on SNS Election List
Vukasin Vucicevic, son of Informer editor Dragan J. Vucicevic, holds 29th place on the SNS list, one of 21 students among 250 candidates, including one who threatened to slit a lawmaker's throat.
The Serbian Progressive Party filed its election list, “Aleksandar Vucic, United Serbia,” with the Republic Election Commission at 1 p.m. on September 12, ahead of the parliamentary election set for October 25. Darko Glisic delivered the paperwork on the party’s behalf. Among the 250 names on the list are 21 students, close to ten percent of all candidates, according to a review of the documentation published by N1 and Nova.rs. Two names from that group stand out: Vukasin Vucicevic, son of Informer editor Dragan J. Vucicevic, sits at number 29, while Vladimir Balac, a student the Green-Left Front accused back in November 2025 of threatening to slit lawmaker Biljana Djordjevic’s throat, sits at number 91.
The top three spots belong to party president Aleksandar Vucic, Prime Minister Milos Vucevic and Assembly Speaker Ana Brnabic. Behind them come a string of familiar names, including Milenko Jovanov, Nikola Selakovic, Ugljesa Mrdic and Marijan Risticevic, along with Marina Ragus, a former Serbian Radical Party lawmaker. This outlet has previously reported that the list also carries the son of Vojislav Seselj, former basketball player Zeljko Rebraca and actor Branislav Lecic, so the roster of students pulled from Pionirski Park fills out the picture of who the party leadership is banking on this election cycle.
The placement of the 21 student names is far from even. Only six of them land in the first hundred spots, while eleven sit between number 200 and number 250. Since parliamentary seats are handed out from the top of the list down, a candidate’s position is the clearest sign of how much the party actually expects from them.
Who Is Vukasin Vucicevic
Vukasin Vucicevic, 24, studies law at the University of Belgrade. According to N1, he co-owns the company Rzav Residence with his cousin Dejan Vucicevic, which is building a residential and commercial complex in Arilje, so the list could just as easily have introduced him as an entrepreneur rather than a student. Two spots ahead of him, at number 27, is Milos Pavlovic, a medical student at the University of Belgrade whom the press has dubbed the “student zero who wants to learn,” and who spent the summer examining patients at a mobile clinic. At number 46 is Luka Lalosevic of Ruma, a political science student known for appearing as a guest on pro-government television during the faculty blockades.
The Throat-Slitting Threat and a List Spot
Vladimir Balac, a student at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, is one of the best-known faces from the group that camped out in Pionirski Park. In November 2025, the Green-Left Front laid out the circumstances of an incident involving lawmaker Biljana Djordjevic:
After Djordjevic filmed new installations going up in Cacilend, Vladimir Balac started filming her, threatened to slit her throat if she published the footage, mimed a throat-cutting gesture and kept following and filming her as she walked away toward the underpass.
The criminal complaint Djordjevic filed against Balac nearly ten months ago has, by her own account, still not been processed. When the SNS list came out, Djordjevic wrote on X:
It made me sick to watch yesterday’s footage from the election commission, where the man who threatened to slit my throat showed up next to the Speaker of the National Assembly to help hand in the SNS list’s signatures.
At the signature submission, alongside Vucevic, Glisic and Brnabic, stood students from the list itself: Pavlovic, Lalosevic, Lazar Aksentijevic, Balac, Vukasin Djordjevic and Andjelija Hajdana Bakalovic. Aksentijevic, from Zvecan, appears at number 154, listed as a “PhD candidate, student,” while Nina Trnavac, an SNS council member in Sevojno, holds number 208.
Who Didn’t Make the List
Alongside the editor’s son and the student accused of the threat, Nova.rs reports the list also includes, at number 43, Samir Tandir, head of the Bosniak-Serb Alliance, who was sentenced to seven months in prison over a 2020 meat-cleaver attack on Sead Veljovic in Prijepolje. On the other hand, the list leaves out Finance Minister Sinisa Mali, Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic, Foreign Minister Marko Djuric and Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar, and as far as we know, the party leadership has offered no public explanation for why they were left out of this first reshuffle of its parliamentary lineup.
Bojan Pajtic, a law professor at the University of Novi Sad and former president of the Democratic Party, commented on the mix of well-known actors, the propaganda editor’s son and students with checkered pasts for Nova.rs:
When actors, the son of a regime propagandist and students better known for incidents than for ideas turn up among a party’s political hopefuls, the list becomes an X-ray of its value system. It is especially grotesque when people tied to threats and aggressive rhetoric get offered up as “new political blood,” because that turns an incident into a recommendation for advancement. SNS clearly is no longer looking for people who will represent citizens, but characters who will represent SNS.
The party itself has not responded to that assessment so far. Whether the spots reserved for Vucicevic’s son and for Balac turn into actual parliamentary seats will depend on how many votes SNS wins on October 25, and that answer will not arrive until election night.
