Vucic Visits Moravski Konaci as Krnjevo Awaits Road, Water

President Aleksandar Vucic, top candidate on the “Aleksandar Vucic, United Serbia” ticket, arrives at noon today at the Moravski Konaci ethno village near Velika Plana. The visit was announced Friday afternoon by the Serbian Progressive Party’s information service, which said the president would use the stop to talk with local residents. It is the first field visit by the list’s top candidate to be announced since the election campaign officially began.

The ethno village sits on Corridor 10, about 89 kilometers from Belgrade, on the road out of Velika Plana toward Pozarevac, a kilometer from the E75 highway.

Ahead of the visit, residents of nearby Krnjevo used the Facebook page “Support for Krnjevo Residents” to lay out two specific requests, separate from the official announcement.

“Residents of Krnjevo have one request: that the road between Krnjevo and Smederevska Palanka finally be rebuilt, and that another water booster station be completed and put into operation, so that everyone in Krnjevo gets drinking water,” the page’s post read.

The authors of the post added that it would be good if one of the residents in attendance, should they get a chance to speak during the visit, raised exactly these two requests. They said they were leaving out two other issues because Krnjevo had already been promised the paving of local streets and the opening of a kindergarten in October.

The tone of the post toward past visits was not gentle.

“The same people who neglect Krnjevo and redirect money to other places, even though a lot has already been done there, will come begging for votes, because they are clearly not ashamed,” the post said.

According to the page, residents had earlier thanked Dusan Maric, president of the Velika Plana Municipal Assembly and an SNS candidate in the upcoming election, for requesting funds in the National Assembly for the reconstruction of the Krnjevo to Smederevska Palanka road. That thanks, the post said, came with a remark that nothing had come of the announcement yet, and that Krnjevo, apart from part of the Savanovac settlement, could still only dream of running water, since the first booster station was not working and the second had not even been started.

According to the eBranicevo portal, Maric did not comment on the water issue. He gave the outlet a separate list of road sections he expects to be rebuilt after today’s visit: the road through Staro Selo and Novo Selo, the Krnjevo to Trnovce to Milosevac to Lozovik road, the Bresje to Koporin Monastery to Karaula road, and the state road from Krnjevo to Smederevska Palanka.

“I expect that Saturday’s visit will help the state fulfill its promise and rebuild” those roads, Maric told eBranicevo, listing the routes above.

Maric also recalled, in his own words, the history of past visits: Vucic toured Velika Plana on March 9, 2019 and March 9, 2025, and after those two visits, he said, numerous roads across the municipality, both state and local, were rebuilt. On July 20 this year, Maric added, the president officially opened construction of a new bridge over the Velika Morava river, between Markovac and Svilajnac.

Today’s visit comes after Vucic announced that the campaign would kick off on Saturday, as previously reported. Moravski Konaci is therefore the top candidate’s first concrete field stop since that announcement, and Krnjevo is the first nearby place to have publicly laid out, ahead of the visit itself, what it expects from it.

Whether Krnjevo residents get the chance to voice their two requests in front of the president, and whether the road reconstruction and a second booster station make it into the promises from today’s stop, will only become clear once the visit to the ethno village wraps up after noon.