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Ruling Progressive Party wins Serbian snap elections: final results

Xinhua, May 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

According to final results of the April 24 snap parliamentary elections in Serbia published on Thursday, coalition around the pro-EU Progressive Party of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic won almost half of the votes, which enables it to form government independently.

Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) announced final results of the early parliamentary elections after the voting was repeated on Wednesday at 15 polling stations due to irregularity complaints submitted by parties.

According to the final results, ruling coalition around Progressives won 48.25 percent of votes (131 MP seats), Socialist party, former smaller coalition partner in the government, won 10.95 percent (29 MPs) while far-right, pro-Russian Radical Party won 8.10 percent (22 MPs).

Movement "Enough is enough," newcomer in the parliament, won 6.02 percent of votes (16 MPs), the same goes to pro-EU Democratic Party (6.03 percent, 16MPs). Social Democratic Party won 5.02 percent of votes (13 MPs) as well as anti-EU Democratic Party of Serbia (5,04 percent, 13 MPs).

Remaining MP seats belong to minority parties: Hungarians (four MPs), Bosniaks (two parties with two mandates each), Albanians (one) and the Green Party (one MP).

According to the results, 56.07 percent of registered voters used their rights to vote, which sums up to 3,778,923.

RIK has the deadline of 10 days to award mandates to MPs after which the parliament will be constituted within 30 days. Latest legal deadline to form the government is 90 days after the parliament holds its inaugural session.

Novelty in the parliament will be a wide specter of parties in the opposition ranging from EU supporters to anti-EU pro-Russian parties.

Vucic announced one day after the elections that the government will be formed after the meeting of the presidency of the Progressive party scheduled for May 28.

Serbian parliamentary elections were called two years before term by Vucic to test the trust of voters and willingness to continue reforms and accession negotiations with the European Union, after two years of tough economic reforms, and to get a fresh four-year mandate to implement them. Endit