BELGRADE -- The Electoral Commission (RIK) has received final lists of MPs for the new parliament from all the parties, with the exception of the SPS-PUPS-JS.
BELGRADE -- The Electoral Commission (RIK) has received final lists of MPs for the new parliament from all the parties, with the exception of the SPS-PUPS-JS.
Source: B92, Beta
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He said that according to regulations on submission of MP lists, the deadline expired at midnight, but that there was an additional deadline of five further days.
The “For a European Serbia” list will have 102 seats in the new parliament, the Serb Radical Party 78, the Democratic Party of Serbia-New Serbia 30, the Socialists 20, and the Liberal Democrats 13.
Ištvan Pastor’s Hungarian coalition will have four seats, Sulejman Ugljanin’s Bosniak List for a European Sandžak two, and the Preševo Valley Albanian coalition one.
Yes this is suspicious and I'm surprised more hasn't been made of it in the media.
I'm not sure if it has something to do with a dispute between partners on seat allocation or somehow related to their agreement to stand together and who the mandates belong to in the event that parties decide to go separate ways.
(bganon, 1 June 2008 15:48)
"... but that there was an additional deadline of five further days."
By additional deadline - I suspect that you mean that there was an extension.
This is troubling news though as it suggests that the SPS-PUPS-JS coalition may be more deeply divided then they appear in the media; it seems reasonable to assume that a general understanding on how they would allocate the seats they earned would have been established prior to establishing their coalition, so why the dickering now? The delay suggests that some 'horse trading' is occurring - an extra seat here, a 'softening' of position there. As might well be expected this is idle speculation though I have little doubt that I'm among a wide variety of speculators as to the political minutia following the elections.
(Dave, 1 June 2008 04:48)
"... but that there was an additional deadline of five further days."
By additional deadline - I suspect that you mean that there was an extension.
This is troubling news though as it suggests that the SPS-PUPS-JS coalition may be more deeply divided then they appear in the media; it seems reasonable to assume that a general understanding on how they would allocate the seats they earned would have been established prior to establishing their coalition, so why the dickering now? The delay suggests that some 'horse trading' is occurring - an extra seat here, a 'softening' of position there. As might well be expected this is idle speculation though I have little doubt that I'm among a wide variety of speculators as to the political minutia following the elections.
(Dave, 1 June 2008 04:48)
Yes this is suspicious and I'm surprised more hasn't been made of it in the media.
I'm not sure if it has something to do with a dispute between partners on seat allocation or somehow related to their agreement to stand together and who the mandates belong to in the event that parties decide to go separate ways.
(bganon, 1 June 2008 15:48)
Yes this is suspicious and I'm surprised more hasn't been made of it in the media.
I'm not sure if it has something to do with a dispute between partners on seat allocation or somehow related to their agreement to stand together and who the mandates belong to in the event that parties decide to go separate ways.
(bganon, 1 June 2008 15:48)
"... but that there was an additional deadline of five further days."
By additional deadline - I suspect that you mean that there was an extension.
This is troubling news though as it suggests that the SPS-PUPS-JS coalition may be more deeply divided then they appear in the media; it seems reasonable to assume that a general understanding on how they would allocate the seats they earned would have been established prior to establishing their coalition, so why the dickering now? The delay suggests that some 'horse trading' is occurring - an extra seat here, a 'softening' of position there. As might well be expected this is idle speculation though I have little doubt that I'm among a wide variety of speculators as to the political minutia following the elections.
(Dave, 1 June 2008 04:48)