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== Results == == Results ==

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Parliamentary elections took place in Serbia on 21 January 2007. The decision on the future status of Kosovo will not be made until after the election, allegedly to reduce the risk of the Serbian Radical Party gaining an absolute majority.

Parties registering as ethnic minority parties (options 8, 10, 14, 17, 19 and 20) did not need to surpass the 5% threshold to gain seats in the parliament, but instead needed to pass a natural threshold at 0.4%. For the first time in a decade, Albanian parties from the Preševo Valley participated in the elections.

6,652,105 voters were eligible to vote, an increase of 14,000 voters when compared to the constitutional referendum held a few months before. 31,370 of the eligible voters were living abroad, and 7,082 were in prison. There were 8,441 ballot stations, 58 of which were abroad. Final election results must be announced by midnight on January 25, 2007. The d'Hondt method will be used to distribute parliamentary mandates following the election. Parties and coalitions will have 10 days following the election to decide which candidates will take their alloted seats in parliament. Parties then have three months to negotiate a government.

Parties

Twenty party lists registered with the electoral commission before the deadline of 2007-01-05:

  1. Democratic Party — Boris Tadić (Демократска странка - Борис Тадић)
  2. G17 Plus – Mlađan Dinkić (Г17 плус — Млађан Динкић)
  3. Liberal Democratic Party–Civic Alliance of Serbia–Social Democratic Union–League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina — Čedomir Jovanović (Либерално демократска партија — Грађански савез Србије — Социјалдемократска унија — Лига социјалдемократа Војводине — Чедомир Јовановић)
  4. Serbian Radical Party – Dr Vojislav Šešelj (Српска радикална странка — др Војислав Шешељ)
  5. Democratic Party of Serbia–New Serbia — Dr Vojislav Koštunica (Демократска странка Србије — Нова Србија — др Војислав Коштуница)
  6. Strength of Serbia Movement — Bogoljub Karić (Покрет снага Србије — Богољуб Карић)
  7. Serbian Renewal Movement — Vuk Drašković (Српски покрет обнове — Вук Драшковић)
  8. Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians — Jožef Kasa (Савез војвођанских Мађара — Јожеф Каса)
  9. Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) — Dr Jovan Krkobabić and Social Democratic Party (SDP) — Dr Nebojša Čović (Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС) — Др Јован Кркобабић и Социјалдемократска партија (СДП) — Др Небојша Човић)
  10. Coalition List for Sandžak Dr Sulejman Ugljanin (Коалиција Листа за Санџак др Сулејман Угљанин)
  11. Socialist Party of Serbia (Социјалистичка партија Србије)
  12. Branko Pavlović — "Because it has to be better" (Бранко Павловић — "Зато што мора боље")
  13. Coalition "Vojvodina parties" — Mr Igor Kurjački (Коалиција "Војвођанске партије" — мр Игор Курјачки)
  14. Roma Union of Serbia — Dr Raјko Đurić (Унија Рома Србије — др Рајко Ђурић)
  15. Reformist Party — Dr Aleksandar Višnjić (Реформистичка странка — др Александар Вишњић)
  16. Democratic Community of Serbia — Dr Obren Joksimović (Демократска заједница Србије — др Обрен Јоксимовић)
  17. Albanian Coalition from Preševo Valley (Коалиција Албанаца Прешевске долине)
  18. Social Democracy — Nenad Vukasović (Социјалдемократија — Ненад Вукасовић)
  19. Coalition "Hungarian Union" — Andraš Agošton – Dr Pal Šandor (Коалиција Мађарска слога — Андраш Агоштон – др Пал Шандор)
  20. Roma Party — Šajn Srđan (Ромска партија — Шајн Срђан)

Polls — 21 January 2007

Republican Electorate Commission of the Republic of Serbia (Републичка изборна комисија Републике Србије) announced at 10am, that 9.07% of voters came out to vote. The highest turnout was in Vojvodina where 9.96% came out, Central Serbia 8.59% came out and in Belgrade 7.58%. (This is the estimate at 10 am). In 2003 parliamentary elections only 8.21% came out by 10 am. (In 2007 there is a rise of 0.86%)

Republican Electorate Commission of the Republic of Serbia (Републичка изборна комисија Републике Србије) has announced at 3pm, that 30.5% of voters came out to vote. The highest turnout was in Central Serbia where 31.01% came out, Belgrade 30.06% came out and in Vojvodina 29.18%. (This is an estimate at 3pm). In 2003 parliamentary elections only 29.70% came out by 3 pm. (In 2007 there is a rise of 0.80%)

Republican Electorate Commission of the Republic of Serbia (Републичка изборна комисија Републике Србије) has announced at 7 pm, that 51.51% of voters came out to vote. The highest turnout was in Vojvodina where 51.65% came out, Central Serbia 51.46% came out and in Belgrade 49.77%.

Campaign slogans

The parties' campaign slogans for the 2007 election:

  Party English slogan Serbian slogan Literal English translation
    Democratic Party Because life can't wait Zato što život ne može da čeka
Зато што живот не може да чека		 Because life can't wait
    G17 Plus Skills, not politics Stručnost ispred politike
Стручност испред политике		 Expertise before politics
    Liberal-Democratic Party It depends on us Od nas zavisi
Од нас зависи		 It depends on us
    Serbian Radical Party So that things are already better today Da vec danas bude bolje
Да већ данас буде боље		 So already from today things can get better
    Democratic Party of Serbia / New Serbia Long live Serbia Živela Srbija
Живела Србија		 Long live Serbia
    Serbian Strength Movement Serbia has the power Srbija ima snage
Србија има снаге		 Serbia has strength
    Serbian Renewal Movement Worth fighting for Vredi se boriti
Вреди се борити		 It pays to fight
    Socialist Party of Serbia Arise, Serbia Srbijo, glavu gore
Србијо, главу горе		 Serbia, heads up

List details

DS

The Democratic Party list also includes the Democratic Party of Sandžak, the Democratic League of Croats in Vojvodina and National Councils of the Slovak and Bunjevci national minorities.

The Party for Sanjak supports this list.

G17 Plus

G17 Plus appeared as an independent list led by Mlađan Dinkić.

LDP-GSS-SDU-LSV

The Coalition list of the Liberal Democratic Party, Civic Alliance of Serbia, Social Democratic Union and the Social Democratic League of Vojvodina. The list also includes members of Christian Democratic Party of Serbia. Coalition leader is Čedomir Jovanović.

SRS

Serbian Radical Party will appear as an independent list led by Vojislav Šešelj and Tomislav Nikolić being the second candidate.

DSS-NS

The Coalition of the Democratic Party of Serbia and New Serbia also includes United Serbia and Serbian Democratic Renewal Movement.

PSS

Strength of Serbia Movement — Bogoljub Karić will appear as an independent list led by Milanka Karić.

SPO

The Serbian Renewal Movement became a candidate party under on 4 December 2006 at 11:30am after accumulating 17,024 electoral signers.

The list includes a total of 250 candidates, and includes members of the Serbian List for the Return of Property, People's Peasant Party (of Marjan Rističević), Liberals of Serbia (represented by Radivoje Lazarević and Žarko Jokanović) and the Movement "I live for Krajina". The list's bearer is partial president Vuk Drašković followed by the vice-presidents of the party - Vlajko Senić, Srđan Srećković, Sanja Čeković, Žika Gojković and Mirko Čikiriz.

SVM

Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians will appear as an independent list led by Jožef Kasa.

PUPS-SDP

Social Democratic Party will run in the elections together with the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia. The Party of United Pensioners of Serbia will get the greatest share of the possibly won seats. The Socialist People's Party is on this list as well.

List for Sandžak

Coalition "List for Sandžak" led by Sulejman Ugljanin will include other political leaders from Sandžak Bajram Omeragić and Esad Džudžević.

SPS

Socialist Party of Serbia will appear as an independent list led by Ivica Dačić.

Vojvodina parties

Coalition "Vojvodina parties" led by Igor Kurjački will include Vojvodina Party, Civic Movement of Vojvodina, Our Vojvodina, Srem Party, Party of small shareholders, pensioners, unemployed and Party of Pensioners and Workers of Serbia.

Roma Union

List of Roma Union of Serbia led by Raјko Đurić will also include members of Vlachs of Democratic Serbia.

Albanians from the Preševo Valley

A Coalition of Riza Halimi's Democratic Action Party and Skender Destani's Democratic Union of the Valley, two local ethnic Albanian parties from the Presevo valley. The other two regional Albanian national minority parties were previously a part of the Coalition, but changed their opinions later and called on the Presevan Albanians to boycott the elections.

Hungarian Union

List of the coalition "Hungarian Union" led by Andraš Agošton and Pal Šandor will also include Democratic Community of Hungarians of Vojvodina, Democratic Union of Hungarians of Vojvodina and youth movement 64 Counties (which was banned in Hungary).

Turnout

By 1800 (1900 GMT), the Republican Electoral Commission confirmed a figure of 3,427,402 people that have voted in the election, or 51.51% of the total electoral body:

By 1900 (2000 GMT), the turnout of registered voters was around 56.7% (around 3,770,000 citizens):

Note that voter registration in Kosovo by Kosovar Albanians is very low, inflating the apparent turnout.

Results

According to the preliminary results, the 250 mandates will be split like this:

Reaction

Dutch foreign minister Ben Bot congratulated Boris Tadic with the result, stating "the fact that Mr. Tadic has doubled his position in the parliament is of great importance, since it means that the Serbian people value a pro-European course".

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana stated "The majority voted for forces that are democratic and pro-European", continuing "I hope very much there will be a speedy formation of a government that will be on the line of pro-European forces."

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said "The radicals got most votes but nevertheless two thirds of the seats in parliament will go to democratic forces"

Notes

  1. "Serbian President Calls Early Elections". Retrieved 2007-01-21.
  2. "West delays Kosovo decision due to Serbia elections". Retrieved 2007-01-21.
  3. "RIK: Radicals lead, followed by Democrats". Retrieved 2007-01-21.
  4. ^ "Solana puts brave face on results". CNN. January 22 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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