ZAGREB, Dec 26 (Hina) - A ban on electioneering went into force at midnight on Thursday in Serbia ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for December 28.
ZAGREB, Dec 26 (Hina) - A ban on electioneering went into force at
midnight on Thursday in Serbia ahead of parliamentary elections
scheduled for December 28.#L#
Some 6.5 million citizens with the right to vote will choose between
19 parties and coalitions which have put up lists of their candidates
for 250 parliamentary deputies. A total of 4,144 candidates are
standing the election for the 250 seats in the Serbian assembly. The
election threshold is five percent.
According to opinion polls, those that have the best chances of
entering the Serbian Assembly are the Serb Radical Party of Vojislav
Seselj, Democratic Party of Serbia of Vojislav Kostunica, G17 Plus of
Miroljub Labus and the Democratic Party of the assassinated premier
Zoran Djindjic. It seems that the Socialist Party of Serbia of the
country's former leader Slobodan Milosevic, who is now standing trial
before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) , may pass the threshold.
First returns from the polls are likely to be announced at about 22:00
hrs Sunday.
The Serbian parliamentary elections are marked by the fact that four
crimes indictees are running in them. Two of the ICTY indictees -
Vojislav Seselj and Slobodan Milosevic - are already in the detention
centre of the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. The other two are
Nebojsa Pavkovic who is at the top of the slate of his party, and
police general Sreten Lukic who is on the slate of the Liberals of
Serbia, led by the incumbent interior minister, Dusan Mihajlovic.
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