Bojan Klacar

The REC announced that by 6 p.m. on the territory of the Republic of Serbia, without Kosovo and Metohija, 50.82 percent of voters out of 6.502.307 total registered voters went to the polls.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, then presidential candidate, greets a supporter during a campaign rally in Nis in 2017. Photo: EPA/Djordje Savic

Serbia's election race will restart where it stopped:

Both local and parliamentary elections will be held on the same date.
Secretary General of the President of Serbia Nikola Selakovic confirmed for Prva TV that the parliamentary and local elections in Serbia will be held on April 26th.
Vucic earlier said that potential dates for the forthcoming elections could be April 19 or 26, "Blic" recalls.

That is what the Belgrade press writes on Monday. The SNS presidency, the expanded Executive Board and the Main Board will hold sessions on Tuesday in Belgrade's Sava Center congress hall.

Recently amplified anti-EU rhetoric by a number of Serbian government ministers could potentially affect public opinion about the EU, amid a deep division over Serbia's potential EU membership, experts say.

As Bosnia's election campaign begins in earnest, Milorad Dodik's own campaign to win the Serbian seat on the Bosnian presidency is receiving support from the government of nearby Serbia.

Serbia remains the only Balkan state which has not yet publicly congratulated its neighbour Macedonia and Greece on their signing on Sunday of a landmark agreement aimed at finally resolving their decades-long dispute over Macedonia's name.

Serbian officials have continued to hint that citizens will be given an opportunity to declare their views on any proposed settlement of the Kosovo issue.

Many believe a referendum is the most likely solution, as Serbia's constitution mentions Kosovo as part of the national territory.  

Last weekend's Belgrade elections left 20 of the competitors without seats in the capital's municipal assembly, among them the former ruling Democratic Party and the Serbian Radical Party, demonstrating that there is a crisis within the political opposition, experts told BIRN.

BELGRADE - CeSID Executive Director Bojan Klacar said Sunday he was not surprised by the low morning turnout in the Belgrade local elections.

He said prior research had indicated the turnout would not be on par with that in last year's presidential elections.