Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic, hospitalized on his return from Florida

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic was hospitalized on Saturday May 3, on his return from the United States, but is in a state ” stable “ Allowing its release during the day, announced a military doctor.

The 55 -year -old head of state, “Was admitted to the military medical academy immediately after landing” In Belgrade, write its services in a press release addressed to the France-Presse agency (AFP).

Several hours after his admission, cardiologist Dragan Dincic, chief of the army health management, told the press that the state “Stable and satisfactory” The president would allow him to leave the establishment during the day. According to him, Mr. Vucic felt “Intense chest pain” While he was in the United States and American doctors then found that his blood pressure was high.

“American doctors have carried out all the necessary examinations and the president, unlike their recommendation,” decided to return to the country, [mais] It is not realistic to expect the president to fully resume his regular activities in the coming days ”added the doctor, adding that Mr. Vucic had met with “Similar problems” Three times, in the past ten years.

Elected to the presidency in 2017 after three years at the head of the government, Mr. Vucic had been briefly hospitalized in 2019 for “Cardiovascular problems”. The head of state has faced an unprecedented protest movement since November for decades since November, triggered by an accident at Novi Sad station in northern Serbia. The 1^er November 2024, the concrete awning of this station, just renovated, had collapsed, killing 16 people including two children. Many in Serbia question corruption that would have tapped renovation work.

“Fiasco”

Mr. Vucic is also on the list of guests whose presence was confirmed to the celebrations of the 80^e Anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany organized in Moscow on May 9. During a press conference on Thursday, in front of the Serbian media, he assured that he would go there, despite European pressures. Questioned on the subject on Saturday by AFP, his cabinet did not rule.

On the eve of his trip to the United States, started Wednesday, Vucic had announced two games with Donald Trump “Over the next four days”. According to a newspaper close to the Serbian nationalist leader, one of them was to take place in Mar-A-Lago, owned by the President of the United States in Florida.

In a video message broadcast on his arrival in Florida, Mr. Vucic spoke of “Important meetings” With the highest officials of the Republican Party and the State. Before returning to Serbia, he notably met the ex-personal personal of Donald Trump and former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani.

Several opposition figures have qualified the presidential displacement of “Fiasco” or “Debacle”because, according to them, he could not have met his American counterpart. “He covers his fiasco with a story of a health problem forcing him to return urgently to Belgrade. There is no medicine (…) in America “quipped on X Zdravko Ponos, leader of the centrist and fierce opponent party of the president, who was his opponent in the presidential election of 2022. Mr. Ponos was immediately qualified as“Dispatling individual” By the president of the Parliament, Ana Brnabic, a relative of Aleksandar Vucic, who denounced his “Wickedness” and its ” hate “ with regard to the Head of State.

The pressure exerted by the demonstrators led to the resignation of the Prime Minister and to the fall of the government. In response to the anger expressed for six months, Aleksandar Vucic alternated calls for dialogue and accusations that the demonstrators, who are mainly students, were manipulated from the outside.