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The repeat vote held at 53 polling stations on 1 November changed the distribution of seats compared with the preliminary results of the Republic Electoral Commission (REC). The list "Usame Zukorlić (SPP) - Movement for Unification" will enter the National Assembly with one seat. The Student List - Students Are Winning will have one seat fewer, 140 in total. According to the data available after the count, "Aleksandar Vučić - United Serbia" will have 103 seats, the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians - Dr Bálint Pásztor and the Albanian Coalition two seats each, and Rasim Ljajić - Ljudski (SDP-CDP), SDA of Sandžak - Guardians of Sandžak and Zukorlić's list one each. These figures remain subject to the REC's final results.
Only 12 votes decided that Zukorlić's list would win the seat. In view of this, the allegations of vote buying in favour of the same list, which CRTA observers recorded in Aleksinac, are of particular concern.
Voting was repeated at 53 polling stations in 24 municipalities, with newly appointed polling boards. At 31 of them, the results of the 25 October vote could not be established, mostly because the records were signed by fewer than three polling board members. At the remaining 22, the vote was annulled, for reasons including more ballots in the box than voters, missing control sheets and voting by persons not on the voter register.
CRTA's observation mission was present at all 53 polling stations, from the preparations for opening to the count and the publication of the record of voting. Turnout was 44.9 percent. Observers recorded isolated cases of undue influence on voters' will, including vote buying, parallel records of voters and the presence of third parties in and in front of polling stations. At some polling stations in Novi Pazar and Majdanpek, the UV lamp was repeatedly not used properly, and at one polling station in Vladičin Han voters' identity was not consistently established. The full course of the day is available in CRTA's live blog.
With the repeat vote completed, the deadlines for the REC's final report on the election results, and thereafter for the constitution of the new National Assembly, begin to run from the closing of the last polling station.
Only 12 votes decided that Zukorlić's list would win the seat. In view of this, the allegations of vote buying in favour of the same list, which CRTA observers recorded in Aleksinac, are of particular concern.
Only 12 votes decided that Zukorlić's list would win the seat.
Voting was repeated at 53 polling stations in 24 municipalities, with newly appointed polling boards. At 31 of them, the results of the 25 October vote could not be established, mostly because the records were signed by fewer than three polling board members. At the remaining 22, the vote was annulled, for reasons including more ballots in the box than voters, missing control sheets and voting by persons not on the voter register.
CRTA's observation mission was present at all 53 polling stations, from the preparations for opening to the count and the publication of the record of voting. Turnout was 44.9 percent. Observers recorded isolated cases of undue influence on voters' will, including vote buying, parallel records of voters and the presence of third parties in and in front of polling stations. At some polling stations in Novi Pazar and Majdanpek, the UV lamp was repeatedly not used properly, and at one polling station in Vladičin Han voters' identity was not consistently established. The full course of the day is available in CRTA's live blog.
With the repeat vote completed, the deadlines for the REC's final report on the election results, and thereafter for the constitution of the new National Assembly, begin to run from the closing of the last polling station.
