Metropolitan Hilarion comments on outcome of Serbian elections

The incumbent president of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić has been re-elected for a new term, as reported by the Republican Electoral Commission of Serbian with more than ninety percent of the votes counted by 4^th April. “He [Vučić] is truly an outstanding politician,” commented the head of the Department for External Church Relations metropolitan Hilarion.

“For the first time in Serbia’s history someone is elected immediately for a second consecutive term, that is, in the first round of voting he received an absolute majority of votes, which testifies to the great trust the people of Serbia have placed in him,” noted metropolitan Hilarion. He believes that this trust is a result of the Vučić’s economic policies and his balanced foreign policy: “He has not been a party to sanctions against Russia and he is aware of the pro-Russian sentiments that the Serbian people strongly feel.”

The head of the DECR emphasized that Vučić had formed an excellent relationship with the Serbian Orthodox Church which is tied to the Russian Church through “centuries-old bonds of friendship, cooperation and mutual understanding,” as well as “a common stance on most contemporary issues, including the issue of Orthodoxy in Ukraine and the schism supported by the Patriarchate of Constantinople.”

Visible testimony to the friendship between the two nations is the Cathedral of Saint Sava in Belgrade, the largest Orthodox church in the Balkans. The metropolitan added that Russian mosaicists contributed to the cathedral’s adornment.

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Metropolitan Hilarion comments on outcome of Serbian elections

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