President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia has announced the victory of Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), which he leads, in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, BalkanInsight reported.

Vucic said that his party gained “huge trust from citizens, the highest ever in Serbia.”

“I have been in politics for a long time, but I have never experienced a moment like this, we have gained huge trust from the people, the greatest ever in Serbia, in conditions when few people believed in it,” Vucic said on Sunday evening at the SNS headquarters, after elections results came in.

“Tonight, we received more than 2,000,000 votes of the little less than 3,300,000 people who went to the polls,” Vucic added.

According to parliamentary elections, which have yet to be finalized, SNS won some 63 per cent of votes which will give them 187 out of 250 mandates in Parliament.