Per edited: Bi Luming
According to Xinhua News Agency, according to the preliminary statistical results released by the Serbian Election Commission on the evening of the 4th, the chairman of the Seichen Party and the current president, Vucic, won the presidential election held on the 3rd and won re-election. Serbia's Election Commission said on the 4th that according to the statistics of more than 96% of the votes, Vucic received 58.59% of the vote in the presidential election, and the former chief of the general staff of the Serbian army, Bonoš, who ranked second, received 18.32% of the vote. With more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round of voting, Vucic won the presidential election.
Vucic delivered a speech at the headquarters of the Sérjuna Centrum in the capital Belgrade on the evening of the 3rd, saying that he would continue to work on the modernization of the country, attract investment, and maintain peace and stability.
According to the preliminary statistics of the parliamentary elections released by the Election Commission of Serbia on the 4th, the coalition of parties led by the Serb Forward Party "We can do anything together" won 42.97% of the votes, winning 119 of the 250 seats in the parliament; the opposition coalition "Unity for Serbia's Victory" won 13.57% of the votes and won 38 seats; the coalition "Ivitsa Dačić- Serbian Prime Minister" led by the Serbian Socialist Party led by Dacic received 11.5% of the votes. Won 32 seats. Since no single party or coalition of parties has won more than half of the seats in Parliament, the new government will be formed by a coalition of multiple parties or coalitions of parties.
According to CCTV News, on April 3, local time, Serbia held a presidential election. According to data released by the Electoral Commission of the Republic of Serbia, a total of 6502307 eligible voters can vote in presidential and parliamentary elections.
A total of 8,255 polling stations have been set up in Serbia, 29 of which are in prisons. Some 100,000 voters from the Kosovo and Metohija region voted in the neighbouring central Serbian city. 77 diaspora polling stations have been set up overseas.
In this presidential election, 8 candidates have been shortlisted, 19 political parties have registered for the parliamentary elections, and in the municipal elections, the Belgrade Parliament will elect 110 deputies, who will then elect the mayor for a four-year term. A total of 1,198 polling stations have been set up in the city of Belgrade, and the Municipal Election Commission has determined that the final voters for the local elections in Belgrade will be 1600463.
Voting began at 7:00 local time on April 3 and ended at 20:00 local time. Dimitrijević, chairman of serbia's election commission, said there were 5,218 observers in the election, a record high. From the opening of polling stations to the end of the count, the OSCE monitored the elections with 265 observers from 41 member states.
The President of Serbia serves a five-year term and is eligible for one re-election. The current president, Vucic, took office in 2017. Serbian parliamentary elections are held every four years, and the current parliament was elected in June 2020, and Serbian officials did not explain the reasons for the early holding of parliamentary elections.
Daily Economic News Integrated CCTV News, Xinhua News Agency
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