Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic Elected President

Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic wins in a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential elections.

Lead by a traditional Serbian folk brass orchestra at the headquarters of the Serbian Progressive Party, members and supporters celebrated the victory of their candidate Aleksandar Vucic.

According to preliminary results, he won more than 55 percent of the vote. Opposition candidate Sasa Jankovic, who came second, won just over 16 percent. Vucic pledges that as Serbia's new president, he'll continue to push for Serbia's EU membership.

"It is very important that citizens expressed their will that they want to go forward and that they want to go forward faster, stronger and better. They showed that they want their problems to be resolved swiftly, that they want us to be even more successful in attracting foreign investors. That's something that I'll give full support of to the future government," said the president elect.

Aleksandar Vucic will enter the presidential residence on May 31 as new president of Serbia. As he said in his victory speech, he'll give his best to be president of all citizens of Serbia and not just to those who voted for him.

But despite leaving the opposition in the dust, Aleksandar Vucic pointed to one of the opposition opponents, who he labeled an "anti-system candidate".

It is an imaginary candidate named Ljubisa Preletacevic Beli. He's really a media student named Luka Maksimovic: a satirical performer, whose only platform was to mock the entire Serbian political establishment. And, yet - he won almost 10 percent of the vote; a tremendous success for a political outsider. His supporters were mostly young and disillusioned - people who don't trust their politicians.

One student gave her opinion on the election, but did not say who she voted for.

"Well, we have all the same faces for decades, almost 30 years and nothing really happens. All of them are just making promises, saying things, saying that it's going to be better, but nothing really happens, it is really worse and worse. People are going abroad. Our country is really in a poor state," said Sandra Stojanovic, a student.

As somebody who has been a part of Serbia's political scene for almost 30 years, the greatest challenge for Aleksandr Vucic will be to gain the trust of those like Sandra.