Progressives’ Coalition Wins Majority of Local Elections, Results Uncertain at Only Five Locations

the Serbian Progressive Party, June 2 2024 (BETAPHOTO/EMIL VAS)

Serbia’s ruling coalition, led by the Serbian Progressive Party, won an absolute majority in most of the 89 municipalities and cities where local elections took place on June 2, with the results still uncertain only in five administrative units.

The Progressives’ coalition, led by President Aleksandar Vucic, took the win in Serbia’s two largest cities – Belgrade and Novi Sad – where it will be able to form governments on its own.

According to Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID) forecasts, Vucic’s coalition has won 64 of the 110 seats in Belgrade’s City Assembly, while Savo Manojlovic’s Get Going for Change movement took 21, Dobrica Veselinovic’s We Choose to Fight coalition garnered 14, Branimir Nestorovic’s We – The Strength of the People won nine, and the minority Russian Party took two.

Late on June 2, the ruling coalition declared victories in all cities and municipalities save for Backa Topola, Senta, Kanjiza and Tutin, where the majority of the population are not Serbs.

The outcome of the vote, however, remains undetermined in the cities of Nis and Cacak, where representatives of the opposition have also claimed a win. Hence, the true results of the elections in these two cities will be known only after all ballots have been counted.

The victory of Vucic’s coalition is also questionable in three of Belgrade’s 17 municipalities: Stari Grad, Vracar and New Belgrade.