Preliminary results of national minority councils elections

Preliminary results of national minority councils elections

According to the preliminary results after processing data from 390 of a total of 392 polling stations in the elections for the National Council of the Hungarian National Minority, the most seats, 31, were won by the Hungarian Unity list, which took 83 percent of the vote, RIK official Dragan Vukmirović announced.

When it comes to the Bosniak national minority, 34,282 people, or 35.67 percent of the 96,110 registered voters went to the polls, and RIK has processed 263 of the 267 polling stations.

The For Bosniak Unity – Sulejman Ugljanin list garnered 8,485 votes or 19 seats, while For the Bosniaks, Sanžak and the Mufti won a total of 15,517 votes or 16 seats.

When it comes to the Albanian nationality voters, 13,999 people or 40.37 percent of the 34,675 registered voters took to the polls.

According to data processed from 97 of the 100 polling places where the ethnic Albanians voted, the Coalition for the Rights of Albanians list, which amassed 41.05 percent of the vote, and the Coalition of United Albanians, which won 36.29 percent of the vote, each got six seats, said Vukmirović.

Three seats went to the Democratic Party list, which received 19.89 percent of the vote.

In the elections for the Council of the Roma National Minority, nine seats were won by the Roma for a better future while the Romani Voice for Europe received six seats.

The Truth and Justice for Every Roma and the Roma Citizens of Serbia - Srđan Šajn won four seats each, while three seats each went to went to the Alliance for Change and the Our Roma List - Duško Jovanović.

RIK Secretary Veljko Odalović said that the elections were organized throughout Serbia, including at one place in Kosovo with the help of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo, the UNMIK administration and the OSCE Mission in Kosovo.

"We have received seven complaints and that was concerning three lists only - three complaints concern the Albanian minority list, three other concern the Bosniak minority list and one objection concerns the Vlach national minority list," said Odalović.

The election commission will make special effort to deal with the situation in Tutin after the two incidents in the town.

The electoral rolls were torn to pieces, which prevented voters from exercising their right to vote. If we repeat the vote at these places, RIK will take all necessary measures to ensure that something like that does not happen again, said Odalović.

RIK also announced the results of the elections for the National Councils of the Macedonian, Montenegrin and Croatian National Minorities, which were conducted through electoral assemblies.

The elections for the National Councils of National Minorities were held across Serbia on Sunday and 17 national minorities elected their councils in direct elections.