Aleksandar Vučić

Aleksandar Vučić (born 5 March 1970) is a Serbian politician who led Serbia in positions of the prime minister of Serbia from 2014 to 2017 and the president of Serbia from 2017 to 2026. A founding member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), its president from 2012 to 2023 and its de facto leader after the formal resignation, he held the formal positions of first deputy prime minister from 2012 to 2014, and after becoming the prime minister, he and the SNS gradually consolidated control over the country's politics and led its democratic backsliding. His rule ended in 2026 with the SNS losing the majority in parliamentary elections.