Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has offered his resignation as leader of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) following weeks of protests against his rule but said he would remain head of state.
At a party congress in Kragujevac in central Serbia, Vucic nominated defence minister Milos Vucevic to replace him as party leader. Both his resignation and replacement have to be formally accepted in a closed session of the congress.
The SNS congress comes a day after tens of thousands of people from across Serbia and from neighbouring Kosovo, Montenegro and Bosnia Vucic became president of the SNS in 2012, replacing Tomislav Nikolic who held the post since 2008 when the party was formed as an offshoot of the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party.
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