Sapic Denies Resigning as Belgrade Mayor After Election

Belgrade Mayor Aleksandar Sapic denied on October 28 that he has resigned and said he does not plan to. He gave his answer to the weekly Vreme, three days after the snap parliamentary elections held on Sunday, October 25, 2026.

Vreme asked him whether it was true that he had resigned and whether he planned to. Sapic answered briefly: “No, and I am not planning to.” As reported by Vreme, Nova, Republika and Mondo, the answer comes with no explanation.

Did Sapic resign?

By his own account, no. Vreme says rumors that he had resigned surfaced after the election, but it does not say who started them. According to the weekly, Sapic dismissed such claims.

Mondo, citing Vreme, links the rumors to the election outcome. The student list won, and the United Serbia list, built around the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), of which Sapic is a member, finished second. Vreme also claims that United Serbia lost in all of Belgrade’s urban and suburban municipalities. That is the weekly’s claim: none of the four sources gives percentages or vote counts by municipality, so we do not cite them either. Final results are valid only once the Republic Electoral Commission announces them.

What is Belgrade in Motion demanding?

The organization Belgrade in Motion has called for snap elections in Belgrade to be scheduled urgently. Its assessment, as relayed by Republika, is that the parliamentary results show the mayor no longer has the political legitimacy to run the capital. The organization’s executive director, Nikola Radin, said in a statement:

“He lost legitimacy long ago, and now it is entirely clear that his administration has no political justification to continue its term”

According to the same report, Radin also said the city government’s legitimacy had been eroded long ago and that the election results further underlined the need for change in how the capital is run. The October 25 vote was a parliamentary one, not a city election, so the organization bases its demand for snap elections in the capital on those results.

The sources do not report that Sapic has responded to the demand. His denial to Vreme covers only the question of resignation.

Who is Sapic and how long does his term run?

Sapic was first elected mayor of Belgrade on June 20, 2022, and re-elected on June 24, 2024. He is therefore serving his second consecutive term at the head of the capital, and by his own account he has not resigned.

The situation as of October 28, according to the sources:

• Sapic told Vreme he has not resigned and does not plan to
• Belgrade in Motion is demanding urgent snap elections in Belgrade, arguing the mayor lacks political legitimacy
• there is no information on who started the rumors, or on whether the SNS or the city government has responded to the organization’s demand

What the city government will say next, and how Belgrade in Motion will react to the denial, is not stated in the sources.