Parliamentary procedure

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.

A follow-up to the Vienna meeting on migrants along the Balkan route has been scheduled to take place at the end of the week in Belgrade.

Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic announced this on Wednesday.

A committee with Bulgaria's Parliament are set to discuss on Monday amendments to the constitutions that will pave the way for judicial reform, amid tensions between parties in the ruling coalition.

Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov stepped down last week after MPs amended last week the reform proposals, ones he had submitted and declared his main priority.

The Central Election Committee of New Democracy decided unanimously to postpone the elections for the new leader of New Democracy.

The decision was taken due to the technical problems encountered which could not be solved today. The online system for registering the voters did not work in any of the 833 polling stations.

The statements of Bitlis Governor Ahmet Ç?nar of Turkey's east was on papers Sept. 22. In order to provide voting security, to avoid possible troubles in the transfer of ballot boxes and for the national will to be reflected in the ballot box, he has asked the Provincial Election Board whether certain polling stations can be relocated at certain provincial and district centers.   

Turkey had its legislative elections on June 7. The result was simple: Four parties made it into parliament and not a single one had enough seats to form a government by itself. As prime minister designate, Ahmet Davuto?lu failed to form a coalition government.

A headman in Batman's Yolveren village was all by lonesome on June 7, as he was the only person to cast a vote at his polling booth because the locality's other 16 registered voters all now live in Germany.

Village head Mehmet Alcu, 76, had to cast his vote in a neighboring village as a ballot box could not be set up in Yolveren, a Yazidi village, due to security concerns. 

I have been a volunteer for the Oy ve Ötesi (Vote and Beyond) Platform for the last three elections. I will be at the ballot box for the fourth time this Sunday. As a technology journalist, I had the opportunity to examine where fraud can be committed in Turkey's election system very closely. 

Social Democrat Senator Dan Sova said on Tuesday evening that he wanted the case in which he was investigated to be sent to court, to clear his situation once and for all, after the Senate rejected the request of the Minister of Justice to have him taken into custody and put under pre-trial arrest.

Senator Dan Sova seen at the June 2 Senate sitting

The debate on the government's controversial security bill, scheduled to be held in parliament today after being postponed last week, has been delayed again, as the three opposition parties in the legislature plan to file motion after motion to stop the bill in its tracks.