Elections

Civil society groups say legitimate complaints about Montenegro's electoral roll have not been addressed, raising concern about the outcome of the October 16 general election.

Initiative committees, parties and coalitions which do not receive a state subsidy and, by law, have the right to media packages of up to BGN 40,000 for "for" and "against" campaigns for the presidential elections and the referendum on November 6 can cover their participation in national TV stations and radios only.

A test of the experimental ballot counting by using special machines will probably be confined to Bulgaria's capital Sofia at the forthcoming presidential vote, an electoral official has said.

Aleksandar Andreev, head of the Central Electoral Committee, has told Focus Radio that the constituencies implementing the method for the first time are yet to be determined.

The Green Party and Glas Naroden signed a Memorandum for joint participation in the upcoming presidential elections on Saturday.

I decided that "comparative politics" is the best way to avoid my hopelessness concerning Turkey's politics. I think that, after all, there are many other countries in bad shape all over the world, and even the most advanced countries can be on the list nowadays.

The Bulgarian cabinet has approved the budget for this year's presidential elections and a referendum on the country's political system on October 06.

Funding for both polls will be secured from the central budget for 2016.

With the general elections scheduled for December, the electoral roll check-up designed to secure the conditions for fair polls had serious shortcomings, even though the main parties have said they are satisfied with it, the former head of State Electoral Commission, Aleksandar Novakovski, told BIRN.

BELGRADE - A total of 15 polling places where the vote for the new composition the Serbian parliament was repeated were closed at 8 p.m. Wednesday, and the Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) should come up with preliminary results of the early parliamentary elections very soon.
    
The number of those eligible to vote at these 15 polling places was 19,631.
    

BELGRADE - Fifteen polling stations across Serbia opened for the repeat parliamentary elections on Wednesday morning.

The polling stations opened on time, at 7 am, and will close at 8 pm, the central electoral commission RIK announced.

Preliminary results of Serbia's snap parliamentary elections show that 12 lists will be represented in the new National Assembly.

These results are based on 99.99 percent of all polling stations.