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Early parliamentary elections took place in Serbia on Oct. 25, with 18 tickets with a total of 2,418 candidates vying for 250 seats in the Serbian National Assembly.
A total of 6,451,292 voters were eligible to cast their ballots at 9,392 polling places, including 93 polling places in 37 countries around the world, where 102,147 voters -- or almost three times more than in the last election in Serbia in 2023 were registered to vote. The election threshold is three percent, except for ethnic minority tickets, which are held to a natural threshold. The tickets on the ballot were, in order, Aleksandar Vucic - United Serbia, Ivica Dacic - A Factor of Stability (the Socialist Party of Serbia, United Serbia, Social Democratic Party of Serbia, Greens of Serbia), the Student Ticket - The Students Will Win, Rasim Ljajic - Down to Earth (the Sandzak Democratic Party, Montenegrin Democratic Party), Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség - Dr. Pásztor Bálint [the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians - Balint Pastor PhD], Usame Zukorlić (Justice and Reconciliation Party) Movement for Unification, the Russian Party - Serbia in BRICS - Slobodan Nikolic.
The other tickets on the ballot were the Authentic Right - Milos Jovanovic PhD (the New Democratic Party of Serbia - Monarchists - Serbian NADA coalition - National Democratic Alternative - New Democratic Party of Serbia - Movement for the Kingdom of Serbia, Boldly Serbian), European Serbia - Marinika Tepic-Zdravko Ponos (Freedom and Justice Party, Serbia Center, the Liberation and Solidarity movements), Party of Democratic Action of Sandzak - Guardians of Sandzak, Bogoljub Karic - The Strength of Serbia Movement - BK, the Liberal Green Party for a Free and Cleaner Serbia, I Choose Justice - I Choose the Future - Strength Coalition - Prof. Ferid Bulić PhD - Vasilios Proveleggios - Party of the Future and Development - Civic Party of Greeks of Serbia, Party of Russian-Serbian Unity - Russians and Serbs Brothers Forever, Dad This Is for You - Petar Djuric - Premier of Serbia, Vladimir Gajic - Alternative for Serbia - People's Party, Revolt - The Real Serbia, BUNT - Настоящaя Сербия, the Albanian Coalition - Koalicioni Shqiptar and Mother Serbia - Home Soil.
The People's Serbia coalition, made up of the People's Movement of Serbia, the New Face of Serbia, and the Ecological Uprising, withdrew its electoral ticket after submitting it and endorsed the Student Ticket. A number of opposition parties had announced earlier that they will not run in the election and endorsed the Student Ticket in the interest of creating a referendum atmosphere. A total of 16,176 observers monitored the election, three times more than in previous elections in 2023. Among foreign observers, the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights had 291 observers watching the election, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly 80, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 24, the European Parliament 15, while many embassies and foreign organizations also sent observers.
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