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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

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RIK determines final number of voters

Belgrade, 9 May 2008

The Serbian Electoral Committee (RIK) determined last night the final number of voters in Serbia at 6,749,688 citizens who will have the right to vote at 8,682 polling stations in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

A total of 115,712 citizens will vote in Kosovo-Metohija at 295 polling stations, whereas IDPs will vote at 16 polling stations opened especially for them.

RIK also decided on the manner of informing voters in Serbia of their electoral rights. All stations will broadcast a programme in Serbian and in languages of national minorities.

Voters may exercise their right to vote at the elections on May 11 from 7 am until 8 pm.

Notifications to voters will be presented in audio in visual terms on all television and radio programmes and will be broadcast beginning from May 9.

At last night’s session, RIK adopted the decision on the manner of informing IDPs from Kosovo-Metohija on their right to vote at the elections which states that all IDPs registered in the register of voters may vote at special polling stations outside Kosovo-Metohija.

A total of 201,751 citizens from Kosovo-Metohija will have the right to vote.

Serbian nationals in the UK, Canada, Portugal and the US will be able to vote tomorrow, a day before elections are held in other places and in Serbia.

Polling stations in Canada will be open in Serbia’s Consulate General in Toronto, the Serbian embassy in Ottawa, in the premises of the Serbian Honorary Consulate in Vancouver and the Serbian parliamentary Church of the Holy Trinity in Montreal.

In Portugal, voters will be able to vote in the Serbian embassy in Lisbon and in the UK a polling station will be open at the Serbian embassy in London.

Six polling stations will be open in the US – in the Serbian embassy in Washington, consulates general in Chicago and New York, the Saint Sava cultural centre and the Saint Sava’s Church.

Serbian nationals in Croatia will be able to vote at three, in Montenegro at seven and in Bosnia-Herzegovina at two polling stations.

A total of 75 polling stations will be opened abroad at which 51,211 voters have the right to vote.

The pre-electoral silence before parliamentary, regional and local elections in Serbia begins tonight at midnight, and will last until all polling stations are closed on May 11 at 8 pm.

During the pre-electoral silence any direct or concealed advertising of parties, coalitions and political organisations and their platforms is forbidden, as well as fly posting of promotional material within a 50 metre radius from election stations.

On election day, publishing reports on where candidates voted is permitted, but their statements cannot be broadcast.

It is also allowed to broadcast information concerning the number of citizens who voted and videos of state organs and NGOs informing citizens of where and how they can vote.