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Source: Tanjug

BELGRADE -- The final results of the City Electoral Commission (GIK) show the SNS won 43.62 percent and secured 63 councilor seats in the Belgrade City Assembly.

Other seats will be distributed among the Democratic Party (DS), the coalition of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) and United Serbia (JS) and the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS).

The DS will have 22 councillors in the Belgrade City Assembly as it won 15.7 percent of votes in the local elections, and the SPS-PUPS-JS coalition will get 16 councillor mandates as it won 11.49 percent of votes and with 6.39 percent of votes, the DSS will have nine councillors in the City Assembly.

The other parties did not reach the census and among them, most votes went to the Dveri Movement (3.74 percent).

According to the final results, the New Democratic Party (NDS) won 3.66 percent of votes, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won 3.2 percent of votes, list 'Enough of That - Saa Radulovi' claimed 2.06 percent of votes, the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) won 2.02 percent of votes, Citizens' Movement 'JESTE SVEjeDNO' (It is the bottom line) won 1.45 percent of votes and the United Regions of Serbia claimed 1.17 percent of votes.

The other lists won less than one percent of votes in the Belgrade polls.

According to the GIK results, 50.66 percent of voters (805,046 people) cast their ballots out of the 1,588,996 registered voters.

The number of invalid ballots totaled 3.35 percent (26,936 ballots) and 96.57 percent were valid (777,437 ballots).

The local elections were carried out in a fair and regular atmosphere and there were no major irregularities that could affect the regularity of elections, GIK said.

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The Serbian Progressive Party led by Aleksandar Vucic won an outright parliamentary majority in a general election on a pledge to fight graft, fix the economy and join the European Union by 2020.

Vucics party, which forced the ballot two years earlier than scheduled, won 48.8 percent, more than polls predicted, for 157 of the chambers 250 seats, Serbias independent election monitor said today. Prime Minister Ivica Dacics Socialist Party received 14 percent, for 45 seats, said Marko Blagojevic, director of monitor the Centre for Free Elections and Democracy, citing preliminary results.

Vucic, who was once an ally of late Balkan strongman Slobodan Milosevic, pledged to embrace painful austerity measures endorsed by the International Monetary Fund and make Serbia the third former Yugoslav republic to join the EU two decades after the bloody Balkan civil wars. He said he will extend a hand to other parties before forming a new government by May 1.

Im sure that Serbia will continue its European path, Vucic told a media briefing after his party declared victory. We are ready for that kind of dialogue with all the relevant political parties.

Five more parties, including three representing ethnic minorities, crossed the minimum vote threshold to make it into parliament. Final official results will be announced by March 20, according to the Election Commission.

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Vucic has promised billions of dollars worth of investment from the United Arab Emirates to create jobs in an economy which has the same number of active workers and pensioners and where one in four is unemployed. EU accession also promises to raise living standards and economic output per capita, which at 36 percent of the trading blocs average, trails that of poorest member Bulgaria, according to Eurostat.

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Serbias Progressive Party pledged to form a new government by May 1 after winning an outright parliamentary majority in an election on a pledge to fight graft, fix the economy and join the European Union by 2020.

The party, led by Aleksandar Vucic, who forced the ballot two years earlier than scheduled, won 48.3 percent, more than polls predicted, Serbias Election Commission said today. Vucic will get 158 of the chambers 250 seats, while Prime Minister Ivica Dacics Socialist Party received 13.5 percent, for 44 seats, according to preliminary results. Vucic said he will consult with President Tomislav Nikolic and three other parties that made it into parliament.

Vucic, who was once an ally of late Balkan strongman Slobodan Milosevic, pledged to embrace painful austerity measures endorsed by the International Monetary Fund and lead Serbia into the EU two decades after the bloody Balkan civil wars. He said he will extend a hand to other parties before forming his administration.

There is no time to wait, Vucic told state TV broadcaster RTS. Changes are to be expected both among people from his own party as well as among some coalition partners, if there will be any.

The yield on Serbias 2021 dollar bond fell 13 basis points, or 0.13 percentage point, to 5.46 percent at 12:15 p.m. today in Belgrade, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The main index of 15 most actively traded stocks, Belex15, dropped 0.13 percent to 568.93 points, while the dinar was unchanged at 115.9515 per euro.

Five more parties, including three representing ethnic minorities, crossed the minimum vote threshold to make it into parliament. Final official results will be announced by March 20, according to the Election Commission.

Vucic is counting on billions of dollars of investment from the United Arab Emirates to create jobs in an economy where one in four is unemployed. EU accession also promises to raise living standards and economic output per capita, which at 36 percent of the trading blocs average, trails that of poorest member Bulgaria, according to Eurostat.

The election victory gives the Progressives the strongest lock on power by a single party since the communist days. Nikolic and central bank Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic are senior members of the Progressives.

Forming a new government quickly will be an important sign for markets as parliament needs to ratify the loan agreement with the U.A.E., Timothy Ash, a London-based economist for emerging markets at Standard Bank Group Ltd., said by e-mail today. Renewing a coalition with the Socialists could raise questions over the commitment to maintain key reforms while delays in clinching a new IMF deal would also be negative.

Vucics critics fear a tendency to wield a powerful hand over institutions may give him too much influence in a country that has received criticism from the EU for weak rule of law and selective justice.

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