page_title: Aleksandar Vučić
section_title: Prime Minister (2014–2017)
hierarchical_section_title: Aleksandar Vučić / Political career / Prime Minister (2014–2017)
caption_attribution_description: English: Vice President Michael R. Pence &amp; Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, July 17. 2017
context_page_description: Aleksandar Vučić is a Serbian politician who is currently serving as the President of Serbia since 2017. After leaving the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party in 2008, he became one of the founders of the populist conservative Serbian Progressive Party and he has been the party's president since 2012.
  Vučić served as the prime minister of Serbia in two terms from 2014 to 2016 and from 2016 until 2017, as well as the deputy prime minister from 2012 until 2014. Furthermore, Vučić served as a member of the Serbian parliament, Minister of Information from 1998 to 2000 and later as Minister of Defence from 2012 to 2013. In April 2017, Vučić was elected president with over 55% of the vote in the first round, thus avoiding a second round. He formally assumed office on 31 May 2017, succeeding Tomislav Nikolić. His ceremonial inauguration ceremony was held on 23 June 2017.
  As Minister of Information under the Slobodan Milošević administration, he introduced restrictive measures against journalists, especially during the Kosovo War. In the period after the Bulldozer Revolution, Vučić was one of the most prominent figures of the opposition.
caption: President Aleksandar Vučić with US Vice President Mike Pence, Washington, D.C., 17 July. 2017
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