CeSID: Pro-European Coalition Wins Parliamentary Elections

B92

12 May 2008

According to preliminary results issued by Centre for Free Elections and Democracy CeSID, the For European Serbia Coalition won in May 11 Parliamentary Elections and will get 103 seats in the Skup�tina.

Tadic greet celebrations on Terazije Square (Photo: Beta)

Compared to previous Elections, the Serbian Radical Party and the Liberal Democratic Party registered weaker results. SRS will now have 77 MPs, compared to 81 in previous Parliament. LDP, on the other hand, barely went over the five percent census and won 5.2 percent of the vote.

CeSID adds that the DSS-NS coalition of incumbent Prime Minister Kostunica won 30 seats, and the major advance was the result of the SPS-PUPS-JS, with 20 seats in the Parliament.

Zoran Lučić, CeSID Executive Director says that the results are quite reliable and possible movements of one seat here and there are possible. The results prompted the supporters of the Coalition to take to the streets of Belgrade and celebrate the victory.

President Boris Tadić said that his Democratic Party will be the main factor of the future Government, but noted that negotiations will not be easy. In fact all parties that entered into the new Parliament are convinced they will be able to be part of the new ruling coalition.

LDP President Čedomir Jovanović said that LDP is determine to prevent the creation of a government made of the losing parties � the Radicals, the DSS and the Socialist Party.