50 Opposition Seats in Belgrade City Assembly in December Elections, 35 in June

The Belgrade Assembly Session (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

In the Belgrade local elections in December last year, four electoral tickets passed the threshold and the opposition won 50 seats in the city assembly. Five tickets passed the threshold in the June 2 elections in Belgrade and the opposition, according to preliminary data, won 35 seats, without the ticket We – Power of the People of Branimir Nestorovic.

On June 2, the ticket of the coalition around the Serbian Progressive Party won 64 seats, which is 15 more than what the same ticket, in a somewhat smaller coalition, won in the local elections in Belgrade in December last year.

In the June elections, the ticket Aleksandar Vucic – Belgrade Tomorrow incorporated the votes which went to the ticket of the Socialist Party of Serbia Ivica Dacic – Prime Minister of Serbia in December, which ran independently at that time and was the only one to pass the threshold of all the parties which ran independently in December and on the Progressives’ ticket in June.

According to preliminary information from the City Electoral Commission, the We Chose Belgrade opposition ticket, consisting of the parties who were members of the Serbia Against Violence ticket in December except for the Freedom and Justice Party and the Together movement, won 14 seats in the June elections, or 29 fewer than the 43 seats which the Serbia Against Violence coalition won in December.