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CARACAS, Venezuela - The Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ), the highest judicial body in Venezuela, has rejected the opposition's bid to change the presidential mandate from six years to four years, which would have ended President Nicolás Maduro's mandate early and called for elections in December of this year.

Serbia on Sunday held early parliamentary elections, with the final results due to be announced by April 28 at 20:00 CET, at the latest.

The Bulgarian parliament approved on Thursday the introduction of compulsory voting after it adopted the first of the proposed set of amendments to the Electoral Code.

The introduction of compulsory voting had been approved by the parliamentary legal affairs committee earlier on Wednesday.

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye's ruling conservative party, Saenuri, was reeling April 14 from a shock electoral defeat that broke its 16-year parliamentary majority and threatened its chances of retaining the presidential Blue House in 2017.

The Bulgarian parliament adopted at first reading on Thursday draft amendments to the Electoral Code, which pave the way for the introduction of compulsory voting.

The amendments were adopted with 121 MPs voting in favour, 27 being against and 21 lawmakers abstaining, daily Dnevnik informs.

Representatives of the SRS party on Tuesday submitted their list of national assembly candidates in the April 24 early election.

The name of the list, supported by more than 13,000 signatures, is "Dr. Vojislav Seselj - the Serb Radical Party."

Serbian National Assembly President Maja Gojkovic on Monday scheduled local elections for April 24.

The Serbian National Assembly will be dissolved on Thursday, March 3, paving the way for the calling of early parliamentary elections.

On the same day, deputies are expected to elect a new defense minister. Zoran Djordjevic, who is now the MoD's state secretary, has been proposed as the candidate.

The Bulgarian parliament will vote on the first censure motion against the second government of Boyko Borsiov on Friday.

The opposition will subject the government to a vote of no confidence for its failure in its healthcare policy.

The censure motion is expected to be unsuccessful as the opposition parties will not garner the support of 121 MPs.

Sixty-nine members of Bulgarian parliament have submitted a motion of no confidence in the coalition government led by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov over the cabinet's policies in the healthcare sector, public radio bradcaster BNR reported on Thursday.