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On 7 September 2026 the Government of Serbia adopted a proposal and forwarded it to the President of the Republic to dissolve the National Assembly and call elections for members of parliament, according to the Government's own announcement. The current National Assembly was elected on 17 December 2023, so the proposal would end its term early.
The proposal does not by itself call elections. Under the Constitution, the President of the Republic may dissolve the National Assembly on a reasoned proposal of the Government, so the next step is his. Under the Law on the election of MPs, election day must fall between 45 and 60 days from the day elections are called, which means the date of the call determines the entire schedule that follows. CRTA's parliamentary election calendar shows how every legal deadline falls for any given election day.
On the timing officials have signalled, the call is expected within days. President Aleksandar Vučić said in August that early parliamentary elections would be held on either 18 or 25 October. Because at least 45 days must pass between the call and election day, 18 October would have required the call by 3 September, a date that has passed. For 25 October, elections would have to be called by 10 September. If the announced timeframe holds, the President's decision is therefore expected within the next three days.
In the justification, Prime Minister Đuro Macut stated that since the elections of 17 December 2023 interested political actors had been able to put forward proposals to further improve electoral conditions and electoral legislation, and that those conditions had been "additionally and significantly improved", in particular by taking into account the recommendations of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. The justification further cites reduced tensions in society and demands in part of the public for early elections.
CRTA's monitoring does not support that assessment. CRTA's assessment of the 54 ODIHR recommendations issued for the 2023 parliamentary and 2024 local elections finds that most remain unfulfilled or only partially fulfilled. The amendments to four electoral laws adopted in May 2026 were passed without broad political agreement or genuine public debate and remained largely technical, leaving documented structural problems - among them electoral lists of questionable authenticity and falsified support signatures - unaddressed.
The scale of international scrutiny points in the same direction. Following its needs assessment mission, ODIHR recommended its largest observation mission for Serbia in recent years.
What to watch next: whether and when the President dissolves the National Assembly, the election day he sets, and whether any of the outstanding recommendations are addressed in the short window before the campaign formally begins. CRTA documents the electoral process throughout.
The proposal does not by itself call elections. Under the Constitution, the President of the Republic may dissolve the National Assembly on a reasoned proposal of the Government, so the next step is his. Under the Law on the election of MPs, election day must fall between 45 and 60 days from the day elections are called, which means the date of the call determines the entire schedule that follows. CRTA's parliamentary election calendar shows how every legal deadline falls for any given election day.
On the timing officials have signalled, the call is expected within days. President Aleksandar Vučić said in August that early parliamentary elections would be held on either 18 or 25 October. Because at least 45 days must pass between the call and election day, 18 October would have required the call by 3 September, a date that has passed. For 25 October, elections would have to be called by 10 September. If the announced timeframe holds, the President's decision is therefore expected within the next three days.
In the justification, Prime Minister Đuro Macut stated that since the elections of 17 December 2023 interested political actors had been able to put forward proposals to further improve electoral conditions and electoral legislation, and that those conditions had been "additionally and significantly improved", in particular by taking into account the recommendations of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. The justification further cites reduced tensions in society and demands in part of the public for early elections.
The Government's case for early elections rests on improved electoral conditions that CRTA's monitoring does not find.
CRTA's monitoring does not support that assessment. CRTA's assessment of the 54 ODIHR recommendations issued for the 2023 parliamentary and 2024 local elections finds that most remain unfulfilled or only partially fulfilled. The amendments to four electoral laws adopted in May 2026 were passed without broad political agreement or genuine public debate and remained largely technical, leaving documented structural problems - among them electoral lists of questionable authenticity and falsified support signatures - unaddressed.
The scale of international scrutiny points in the same direction. Following its needs assessment mission, ODIHR recommended its largest observation mission for Serbia in recent years.
What to watch next: whether and when the President dissolves the National Assembly, the election day he sets, and whether any of the outstanding recommendations are addressed in the short window before the campaign formally begins. CRTA documents the electoral process throughout.
