BELGRADE, Dec 29 (Hina) - Six parties will enter the new Serbian parliament, but none of them will be able to form a government alone, the Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID) reported in Belgrade on Sunday night.
BELGRADE, Dec 29 (Hina) - Six parties will enter the new Serbian
parliament, but none of them will be able to form a government alone,
the Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID) reported in
Belgrade on Sunday night.#L#
According to 90 percent of processed returns from Sunday's
parliamentary elections, the Serb Radical Party of Vojislav Seselj is
the strongest individual party, with 1,070,000 or 27.7 percent of
votes or 82 seats in the new parliament.
The Democratic Party of Serbia of Vojislav Kostunica has won 695,000
votes (18 percent) or 53 seats in the parliament. The Democratic Party
of the assassinated prime minister Zoran Djindjic, whose list was
headed by Boris Tadic, has won around 490,000 votes (12.6 percent) or
37 seats, while G17 Plus of Miroljub Labus has won 450,000 votes (11.7
percent) or 34 seats. These parties are followed by the coalition of
the Serb Revival Movement of Vuk Draskovic and the New Serbia party of
Velimir Ilic, which has won around 300,000 votes (7.7 percent) or 22
seats in the parliament, the same number of seats as the Socialist
Party of Serbia of Slobodan Milosevic, which won 285,000 votes (7.4
percent).
"The Coalition for Tolerance - Canak-Kasa-Ljajic" has won four percent
of the vote and will most probably not enter the new parliament.
Judging by the results, it is certain that it will take four parties
to form the new government and that a possible coalition of Seselj's
Radicals and Milosevic's Socialists would not be able to form the
government alone, CESID official Zoran Lucic told reporters.
Forming the government requires the support of at least 126 of a total
of 250 parliamentary deputies.
Political analyst Vladimir Goati said forming the new government would
require a coalition of four parties, heterogenous like the former DOS
coalition. He believes that this is likely to happen "because the
alternative is much worse - new parliamentary elections, which would
inevitably lead to the further radicalisation of the electorate".
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