No Information on Turnout from Electoral Commission, First Results on April 4

Tatjana Manojlovic Democratic Party (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

The Republic Electoral Commission has provided no information about preliminary data on the turnout in presidential and early parliamentary elections in Serbia, at the last scheduled news conference in the old building of the Serbian parliament.

After a session scheduled for 8 p.m. on April 4, the Electoral Commission will announce the preliminary results of the elections, and will hold no news conferences before that. This has not happened since 2000.

Vice-president of the Democratic Party Tatjana Manojlovic has stated that the Commission's decision not to announce the projection of the final election results was unprecedented.

The We Must coalition has said that the vote "abounded in huge irregularities" and accused "the regime's representatives" of attempting to obstruct the "massive" turnout in the elections everywhere in Serbia, particularly in Belgrade.

Several parties announced their preliminary results late on April 3 after ballot stations closed. A member of the Patriotic Bloc coalition, Tamara Milenkovic Kerkovic, announced late on April 3 that the coalition won 4.8 percent in the parliamentary elections, citing the results of 12 percent of processed material. The campaign headquarters of the Oath-Keepers announced that, according to preliminary results of the vote, the party would pass the election threshhold of three percent.