The opposition coalition “Serbia Against Violence” claimed that the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) received 21,000 more votes than their list in the elections in Belgrade.
“Considering that more than 40,000 people without legal residence were brought to Belgrade in an organized manner to support the SNS list, which drastically changed the electoral will of the citizens of Belgrade, we demand the annulment of the elections in the city of Belgrade and a repeat vote for the Municipal Assembly,” said the coalition.
They also called for the “cleansing of the electoral roll”.
Meanwhile, the Independent Center for Research, Transparency, and Accountability (CRTA) stated that on December 17, there were indications that voters were brought from Bosnia and Herzegovina and other former Yugoslav republics to vote in the Serbian elections.
Earlier, the SNS dismissed accusations of influencing the citizens’ will during the December 17 elections.
The President of the SNS, Miloš Vučević, declared that he is “certain” his list has won in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, and he believes that Aleksandar Šapić will be the “new or old” mayor of the city.
Serbia held extraordinary parliamentary, local, and regional elections on Sunday.
The turnout in the parliamentary elections was 57.65 percent.
According to the Republican Electoral Commission, votes for the parliamentary elections have been counted in nearly 35 polling stations so far.
According to preliminary results, the electoral list “Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Cannot Stop” won 50.42 percent of the votes in the parliamentary elections, while the list “Serbia Against Violence” won 19.25 percent. The third is the list “Ivica Dačić – Prime Minister of Serbia” with 7.19 percent of the votes.
In fourth place is the list “Hope for Serbia” with 4.45 percent of the votes, followed by “We – The Voice of the People” with 4.06 percent.
Meanwhile, “The Political Battle of the Albanians Continues – Shaip Kamberi”, according to preliminary results, won 0.79 percent of the votes. This list is expected to win a seat in the Serbian Parliament.
Non-governmental organizations, the Center for Free and Fair Elections and Democracy (CeSID), and Ipsos agency stated that the election results are closer, saying that according to the data, the SNS won 3.4 percent of the votes, while the main opposition coalition received 35.1 percent.
In these elections, Serb residents of Kosovo traveled to Serbia to vote. This is because voting was not allowed to take place in the territory of Kosovo, compared to previous years.
They were able to vote in four cities in southern Serbia – in Vranje, Kuršumlija, Raška, and Tutin.
The Government of Kosovo had requested that the state of Serbia make a direct request for the holding of elections, but official Belgrade did not act accordingly, as it does not recognize the independence of Kosovo.
The latest parliamentary elections, organized by Serbia for the Serbian community in Kosovo, were held on June 21, 2020.
Those elections were held according to a previous practice, where the mission in Kosovo of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) collected the votes. These votes were then counted in Raška and Vranje, two border towns in Serbia.
The December 17 elections were the fifth organized in Serbia since 2012 and were held only 18 months after the last electoral process.
The elections were prompted by the increasing public outrage over the mass shootings earlier this year and the opposition’s continuous demand for a new electoral process.
Two mass shootings in May, which left 18 people dead, including nine students and adolescents, resulted in protests in the streets for several weeks.
