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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

Parliamentary elections in Serbia pass in democratic spirit

Belgrade, 22 January 2007

The Serbian Electoral Committee (RIK) stated at midnight the preliminary results of parliamentary elections held yesterday in Serbia, according to which the leading three parties were the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) with 28.32% of the vote, the Democratic Party (DS) with 22.67% and the coalition Democratic Party of Serbia-New Serbia (DSS-NS) with 16.38% of the vote.

Author: Fonet

According to the data, announced by Director of the Serbian Statistics Office Dragan Vukmirovic, other parties that passed the threshold required to enter parliament are G17 Plus with 6.79%, the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) with 5.64% and the coalition gathered around the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) with 5.33% of the vote.

Vukmirovic stressed that these are statistics from 68.08% of processed election stations and 62.62% of processed electorate. Around 60.55% or 2,522,619 voters voted at these places.

According to the data, the Strength of Serbia Movement (PSS) has 1.77%, the Serbian Renewal Movement 3.38%, the Alliance of Vojvodina's Hungarians Jozsef Kasa 1.57%, and the coalition of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia-Social Democratic Party (PUPS-SDP) 3.08%.

The coalition List for Sandzak won 0.91%, the List GG Branko Pavlovic "Because it has to be better" 0.38%, the Coalition "Vojvodina parties" – Igor Kurjacki 0.21%, the Roma Union of Serbia 0.42%, the Reformist Party 0.04%, whereas the Democratic Community of Serbia has 0.13%.

The Albanian Coalition from Preševo Valley won 0.41% of votes, Social Democracy – Nenad Vukasovic 0.12%, the Coalition "Hungarian Union" 0.41% and the Roma Party 0.39%.

RIK President Mihajlo Rulic stated that the elections passed in a democratic spirit and no significant irregularities were recorded.

Rulic said that these elections showed that Serbia has the democratic capacity to conduct elections of the highest standard.

According to the Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID), based on over 90% of processed electorate sample, the SRS received 28.7% of votes or 81 seats in parliament, DS 22.9% or 65 seats, the coalition DSS-NS 16.7% or 47 seats and G17 Plus received 6.8% or 19 seats.

CeSID Director Zoran Lucic added that SPS recieved 16 seats and the coalition gathered around LDP gained 15 seats.