Serbia’s caretaker Finance Minister Siniša Mali, who is also deputy chairman of the Main Board of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), said on Tuesday that Russia’s Gazprom and Hungary’s MOL had signed an agreement for the acquisition of a 56.15 percent stake in Serbian oil company NIS, but that approval from competition authorities in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina was still needed to complete the transaction.

The value of public procurement in Serbia since the beginning of 2026 has reached RSD 764 billion (EUR 6.5 billion) through more than 400,000 contracts concluded, with 57 percent of their value exempt from the Public Procurement Law, Biznis.rs reported, citing the Open Data database.

A total of 79.8 percent of voters will turn out for Sunday’s snap parliamentary elections, according to a poll conducted by Nova srpska politička misao (NSPM) in late September and early October.