Politics of Vojvodina

NOVI SAD - The assembly of Serbia's Vojvodina province on Thursday elected Balint Juhas of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) as its new speaker.

Eighty-one of 120 assembly members in attendance voted in favour of Juhas, 28 voted against and six took no part in the vote.

NOVI SAD - The electoral commission of Serbia's northern Autonomous Province of Vojvodina has adopted a consolidated report on the final results of the December 17/30 elections for the Vojvodina Assembly.

Secretary General of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV) Bojan Kostres said that taking part in the polls was the only way to oppose the current government.
According to this statement, Kostres said that "the boycott of the elections is reducing the number of turnout and, therefore, enabling a greater number of MPs to the Serbian Progressive Party".

Hungarian Prime Minister Vikor Orban will attend the September 27 opening of a football academy in the northern Serbian village of Backa Topola, which has been funded by the Hungarian government with 9.5 million euros.

The president, who met with a delegation from the Alliance of Associations of the Families of Captured and Missing Croatian Defenders, told them that state bodies of Serbia will do everything to achieve visible progress in finding missing persons and shedding light on their fate, Beta agency reported.

The opposition SRS party group in the Assembly of Vojvodina will submit an initiative to open a Serb-Russian center in this Serbian province.

The far-right Serbian League says Serbia's northern city of Novi Sad should become the capital of the country, instead of Belgrade.

Serbian League head Aleksandar Djurdjev, told BIRN that his movement sought the the "decentralization of Serbia.

BELGRADE - Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) leader Istvan Pastor on Tuesday said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic seemed to be under pressure over who would become the new PM.

Pastor said this after consultations with Vucic about the new PM, but declined to elaborate on the statement, adding it was his personal impression.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met on Friday with President of the Vojvodina Provicncial Assembly and Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians leader Istvan Pasztor.

A Serbian voter called Vladimir, from Vrbas, a town in Serbia's northern Vojvodina province, is offering to sell his vote in the upcoming presidential elections for a stiff price on the popular online e-commerce website Kupujem Prodajem.