SNS wins local elections in Belgrade municipality

The Serb Progressives (SNS) have won the early local elections in the Belgrade municipality of Zemun with "over 50 percent of votes", Aleksandar Vučić says.

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Monday, 03.06.2013.

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BELGRADE The Serb Progressives (SNS) have won the early local elections in the Belgrade municipality of Zemun with "over 50 percent of votes", Aleksandar Vucic says. The party's leader and Serbia's first deputy PM told reporters late on Sunday that this was "a sign that Serbia believes it can live better, and that there is hope." SNS wins local elections in Belgrade municipality He specified that based on the 95 percent of the counted ballots, the SNS had received 51.52 percent of the vote. The Socialists (SPS) trail behind with 11.69 percent, followed by the Democrats (8.92%), the DSS (6.92%), the LDP (4.14%), and the URS (0.98%). The Progressives celebrated their success in the municipality with champagne and fireworks, while supporters who gathered near the local party premises chanted Vucic's name. According to Vucic, this was the first time since the multi-party system was introduced that a party had won more than 50 percent of votes in a municipality. This means that the citizens supported the SNS in the fight against corruption and crime, he stated, and added: "We will have to continue to make difficult decisions, to undertake painful measures, but we must pull Serbia out of the crisis. Serbia today finally has hope, ten months after the government was formed." The SNS leader noted that "many will be stopping them" on the road toward "a better, reformed, and decent Serbia," but that his party "must not see them as enemies, but as collaborators with whom to try and create a decent Serbia." Vucic stated that the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and Mladjan Dinkic (URS) had congratulated him on the results in Zemun. Asked whom the SNS intended to talk with about forming the local authorities, he replied, "We will have 60 percent of all mandates, perhaps two thirds." Vucic would not discuss the possibility of early parliamentary elections, and when asked whether he expected a "hot fall" in Serbia, said that he thought that "there will be great work, the terrific effort to pull Serbia out of the crisis." According to the Election Commission set up to organize the voting, the turnout was 35.05 percent, while the SNS received 51.83 percent of the vote - which will translate into 39 seats in the local assembly. (Tanjug) B92 Beta Tanjug

SNS wins local elections in Belgrade municipality

He specified that based on the 95 percent of the counted ballots, the SNS had received 51.52 percent of the vote.

The Socialists (SPS) trail behind with 11.69 percent, followed by the Democrats (8.92%), the DSS (6.92%), the LDP (4.14%), and the URS (0.98%).

The Progressives celebrated their success in the municipality with champagne and fireworks, while supporters who gathered near the local party premises chanted Vučić's name.

According to Vučić, this was the first time since the multi-party system was introduced that a party had won more than 50 percent of votes in a municipality.

This means that the citizens supported the SNS in the fight against corruption and crime, he stated, and added:

"We will have to continue to make difficult decisions, to undertake painful measures, but we must pull Serbia out of the crisis. Serbia today finally has hope, ten months after the government was formed."

The SNS leader noted that "many will be stopping them" on the road toward "a better, reformed, and decent Serbia," but that his party "must not see them as enemies, but as collaborators with whom to try and create a decent Serbia."

Vučić stated that the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and Mlađan Dinkić (URS) had congratulated him on the results in Zemun. Asked whom the SNS intended to talk with about forming the local authorities, he replied, "We will have 60 percent of all mandates, perhaps two thirds."

Vučić would not discuss the possibility of early parliamentary elections, and when asked whether he expected a "hot fall" in Serbia, said that he thought that "there will be great work, the terrific effort to pull Serbia out of the crisis."

According to the Election Commission set up to organize the voting, the turnout was 35.05 percent, while the SNS received 51.83 percent of the vote - which will translate into 39 seats in the local assembly.

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