Dacic: entire SPS leadership offered to resign
The Socialist Party of Serbia leader said on Instagram that every member of the leadership offered a resignation. The Main Board decides after meetings with local branches and the Presidency.
Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) president Ivica Dacic said on Instagram on the evening of Thursday, October 29, that every member of the party leadership has offered a resignation. He was responding to reports that no one at the top of the SPS had taken responsibility for the election result.
What did Dacic write about the resignations?
Dacic called the reports about a lack of responsibility lies. “The Socialist Party of Serbia has been exposed to all sorts of lies and a special war for days, weeks, months and years,” he wrote on Instagram, adding that publishing such claims is “shameful.”
The key line of the post reads:
“Absolutely all members of the leadership feel responsible and have offered their resignations.”
According to Dacic, the resignations will be discussed next week, first at a meeting with the presidents of the municipal, district, city and provincial party branches, and then at a session of the Presidency. The Main Board of the SPS makes the final decisions and meets after those sessions. The post does not give exact dates for the meetings.
What did Beta report about the leadership meeting?
The SPS inner leadership met on the evening of October 28, the first meeting since the election. On October 29, the Beta news agency reported, citing sources in the party leadership, that no official at that meeting took responsibility for the result or offered to resign from a party post. Danas and Kurir also reported that Dacic proposed at the meeting that the party’s regular congress, scheduled for December 2026, be pushed back to February 2027. Those reports do not say the proposal was formally adopted.
Dacic’s post does not mention the congress. On the same day, two opposing accounts of the same meeting were in circulation: one public and signed by the party president, the other attributed by Beta to unnamed sources in the party leadership.
The result and a message to the party
According to figures reported by Danas and Kurir, the SPS won 2.17 percent, or about 93,000 votes, in the snap parliamentary election on October 25 and will have no seats in the new National Assembly.
In the post, Dacic also recalled the year 2000. As head of the SPS city board in Belgrade, he called a meeting for October 6, and only 13 people showed up. “And those 13 fearless people raised the Party like a Phoenix,” he wrote, adding that what follows now is “agreement, meetings, reforms” and that the party is moving on.
The end of the post was personal and brief. “There is no surrender,” Dacic said, and then left the question of his own position open:
“With me or without me, it makes no difference. Long live the Socialist Party of Serbia!”
The next concrete step is next week’s meeting with the heads of the party branches and the Presidency. Only after that does the Main Board decide on the resignations.
