SERBIA DAILY No7

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• N° 7 • Belgrade, May 5, 2016

DSS-Dveri Win Seats in New Parliament? Although the Election Commission was silent until wee hours of the night, the main political contestants celebrated victory. Who is a real winner remains to be seen

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ven more than four hours since the closing of polling stations at the repeated elections in Serbia, at 15 polling stations, the Electoral Commission was - eerily silent. However, the main contestants already celebrated at their party homes, and the only news about the repeated elections came from their headquarters. DSS-Dveri coalition announced that they received more than a thousand votes over the necessary number and will be represented in parliament. Dveri Movement leader Bosko Obradovic told reporters at the DSS headquarters that the coalition received a total of 1,998 votes in repeated elections - 25 percent of the ballots cast yesterday. At the same time Aleksandar Vucic, leader of SNS, announced that at 13 polling stations his party won more votes than on April 24. "So much about stealing the votes. I want to thank all the citizens of Serbia, as they acknowledged our honor and honesty", Vucic said. He also remarked that some electoral lists were pushed into Parliament "by force." He was referring to DSS-Dveri coalition,

Bajram G ecaj, Kosovo Deputy Minister: Ivica Dacic's reaction to Kosovo's acceptance to UEFA was completely unrestrained. All I can say to this statement is that Dacic must expect more "bad news" from FIFA, EU and UN

Vojislav Seselj and Bosko Obradovic

and said that they, now, have about 5,01 percent of votes, which is necessary to pass the election threshold. Enough is Enough (DJB) leader Sasa Radulovic, who was at the DSS premises in Belgrade, explained that Wednesday's voting results suggested

Jadranka Joksimovic, Minister for European Integration: We're going in a circle. Serbia has behaved and is behaving constructively. Just as I said earlier, this is a matter of the memberstates and the European Commission reaching an agreement

the Radicals (SRS) and the Progressives (SNS) made a deal, and that Radical supporters voted for the Progressives. The final arbitrage is to be heard by the Election Commission, and there are expectations they will announce the results sometime today.

Dragan Djuricin, Belgrade University: In 2015, Serbia emerged from recession and posted an economic growth of 0.8 percent. Hence, the European Commission's upgrade to two percent is in line with the government's projection and makes it credible


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