Elections

BELGRADE - Election silence began at midnight in Serbia ahead of the repeat elections scheduled for Wednesday, May 4, at 15 polling stations across the country.

The election silence ends on May 4 at 8 pm, with preliminary results to be announced on Wednesday evening, the central electoral commission has announced.

Election silence has been in effect since midnight on Sunday and will be lifted at 20:00 CET on Wednesday, May 4.

BELGRADE - Serbia's central electoral commission RIK on Thursday began a recount of votes from 99 polling stations at which there had been found to be "grave errors" during the April 24 elections.

"The recount is under way, at 99 polling stations," RIK president Dejan Djurdjevic told Tanjug.

Voting will be repeated at 15 polling stations on Wednesday, May 4, the national electoral commission (RIK) said.

19,631 eligible voters will again have an opportunity to cast their ballots in the Serbian parliamentary elections,

These are perilous times for democracy. In Greece, despite two national elections and one referendum in less than nine months in 2015, nearly half the electorate shunned the ballot box. Elsewhere in Europe, the 50 percent threshold was barely passed in parliamentary elections last year in Portugal and in Spain, where the outcomes were far from decisive.

Serbia's central electoral commission RIK on Thursday began a recount of votes from 99 polling stations.

The commission established that "grave errors" occurred there during the April 24 elections.

Remote online voting will have its first experimental introduction starting 2018, Bulgarian lawmakers decided on Wednesday.

The final outcome of the April 24 parliamentary elections in Serbia may not be known for almost two more weeks.

This is when votes should be counted from those polling stations where elections will be repeated.

Several hundred Bulgarians protested on Tuesday in Sofia, shouting "Resign" and "Mafia" and throwing eggs at parliament, as MPs voted on controversial changes to the electoral law.

The demonstration ended with clashes between police and a small group of protesters and the detention of one citizen, accused of hooliganism.

The Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) late on Tuesday announced the latest results from Serbia's parliamentary elections.

These were based on the ballots collected at 98.04 percent of all polling stations.