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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

31.5% of Diaspora casts ballot

Belgrade, 24 January 2007

The Serbian Ministry for Diaspora has announced that out of 31,334 Serbian voters registered abroad, 9,871 or 31.5% of them voted in the January 21 parliamentary elections.

The biggest turnout was recorded in Germany, where 2,015 or 24.4% of voters polled, in Montenegro, where 1,269 voters or 50.76% went to polling stations, followed by France with 1,032, Switzerland with 973 and Italy with 597, or 44.41%, 41.18% and 29.54% respectively.

In percentages, the largest turnout was in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where 83.57% of registered voters voted, followed by Romania, Slovenia, Denmark and Israel, where the turnout was 63.47%, 55.98%, 53.49% and 53.33% respectively.

State Secretary of the Ministry for Diaspora Aleksandar Cotric stated that it is necessary to amend the Law on election of deputies so as to provide larger turnout of the Diaspora.

Cotric reiterated that voting by mail should be introduced and also noted that a universal voter registration list available on the Internet must be formed.

The new law should also provide voting outside consular and diplomatic offices worldwide and the election process would last several days.

He also noted that the number of Serbian voters in the world is not large, but noted that diplomatic and consular offices, media, clubs, organisation and associations of the Diaspora need to get engaged in that process.