Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic was admitted to a military hospital in Belgrade on Saturday after his return from the United States, said his cabinet without specifying the reasons for this hospitalization. He decided to shorten his trip to the United States, where he had to meet his American counterpart Donald Trump, and to return to Serbia, “following discomfort,” reported several media that accompanied him in his trip.
Vucic “was admitted to the military medical academy immediately after its landing” in Belgrade, said his cabinet, specifying that he would communicate “in good time” on the president’s state of health once obtained “more detailed information”.
In a “stable and satisfactory” state
Several hours after the president’s admission, cardiologist Dragan Dinci explained to the media that the president’s state of health was “stable and satisfactory”, allowing him to leave the establishment during the day. According to this general, chief of the army health management, Aleksandar Vucic felt in the United States “intense chest pain”, and American doctors then noted the “high” values of his blood pressure.
But “it is not realistic to expect the president to fully resume his regular activities in the coming days,” said this doctor, adding that Aleksandar Vucic had encountered “similar problems” three times in the last ten years. Elected president in 2017 after three years as Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vucic had been briefly hospitalized in 2019 for “cardiovascular problems”.
-On the eve of this trip started on Wednesday, Vucic had announced two games with US President Donald Trump “over the next four days”. According to a newspaper close to the Serbian leader, a meeting was to take place at the Mar-A-Lago residence, owned by Donald Trump in Florida. He was taken from discomfort on Friday afternoon local time and made the decision to return to Serbia after consulting a doctor, according to national television (RTS).
In a video message broadcast on his arrival in Florida, Vucic spoke of “important meetings” with the highest officials of the Republican Party and the State. In addition, during a press conference in front of the Serbian media, he announced Thursday that he maintained his plan to go to Moscow, after the trip to the United States, to attend the 80-year commemorations of victory on Nazi Germany, despite European pressures.
A pressure president
Since arriving in the United States, he notably met the ex-personal personal of Donald Trump and former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani. He had been briefly hospitalized in 2019 for “cardiovascular problems”.
The Serbian President is under pressure in his country with demonstrations against corruption and whose weakness does not affect, triggered by an accident in Novi Sad station in November and which left 16 dead.
