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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

Elections for President of Serbia take place today

Belgrade, 2 April 2017

Serbian presidential elections are taking place today, in which citizens will be able to choose between 11 candidates, while Serbian citizens living in Canada, the US and the UK have already voted.

Author: Fonet

6,724,949 citizens with voting right may cast their ballot on 8,396 polling stations from 7.00 to 20.00.

The presidential candidates are as follows:

1. Sasa Jankovic

2. Vuk Jeremic

3. Miroslav Parovic

4. Sasa Radulovic

5. Luka Maksimovic

6. Aleksandar Vucic

7. Bosko Obradovic

8. Vojislav Seselj

9. Aleksandar Popovic

10. Milan Stamatovic

11. Nenad Canak

At 53 polling stations abroad, 11,590 citizens of Serbia may vote.

Voting in Kosovo-Metohija will be at 90 polling stations, where 105,929 voters may vote.

A voter may vote only if he/she shows a valid identity card, passport or driver's licence.

Voters who for health reasons are prevented from coming to the polling station, as well as persons with disabilities and the elderly, can vote if up to 11.00 on election day inform the voting committee thereof.

Voters with disabilities can come to the polling station with the help of a guide dog.

Serbian citizens in the UK, Canada and the United States were able to vote on Saturday from 7.00 am to 20.00, local time.

Today, from 7.00 to 20.00 local time voters may vote in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece, Italy, South Africa, Qatar, China, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malta, Hungary, Germany, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, UAE, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Croatia, Montenegro, Sweden and Switzerland.

Results of voting at polling stations abroad must not be communicated to the public, nor displayed at the polling station before the end of voting in Serbia.

The election of the President of Serbia will be followed by a total of 1,955 domestic observers from four associations and 126 foreign observers from 25 organisations, election commissions and embassies.

The domestic election observers include the Association of Citizens on Guard, Centre for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA), CeSID and Yucom.

Observers will also be from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the EU Delegation in Serbia, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR), the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the SILBA – an initiative for dialogue and democracy from Denmark and the Organisation of Eurasia Centre.

The foreign observers monitoring the elections are from the embassies of the United States, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland and Nigeria.

Also, the conduct of the elections will be monitored by the Central Election Commission of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation and the State Election Commission of Macedonia.