Polling stations in Serbia are closed, and local elections, except in Belgrade and all Belgrade municipalities, were held today in dozens of cities and municipalities.
The list "Aleksandar Vučić - Belgrade Tomorrow" won the most votes in the elections for the Belgrade City Assembly, for which 53 percent of the voters voted, according to the assessment of the voting results published by IPSOS and CeSID based on 56,3 percent of the processed sample.
According to these data, the electoral list of the movement "Kreni-promeni" won 17,1 percent of the votes, while in third place is the opposition coalition "Biramo Beograd", for which 12,5 percent of voters voted.
In fourth place is the list "We are the strength of the people, Prof. Dr. Branimir Nestorović" with 8,1 percent of the votes won.
The list "Za zeleni Beograd - Kad ako ne sad - Dr. Dejan Žujović" won 1,2 percent, and the list of the Russian Party won 1,3 percent.
Other lists, according to estimates, have less than one percent.
Elections for councilors in Belgrade took place without major problems, claims the election commission
The President of the City Election Commission (GIK) Zoran Lukić stated that all polling stations in the city of Belgrade were closed at 20:XNUMX p.m. and that the election day passed without major problems.
"All polling stations were opened on time, except for one polling station - due to protocol problems, in the municipality of Čukarica, which were later corrected. I must point out that as president of GIK, in five election cycles, peaceful elections have never been held," he said. Lukić to journalists, and reported by Beoinfo on its website.
According to him, all polling stations are provided with voting secrecy, safety spray and a lamp.
"GIK reported to the public about the turnout every two hours, with the final turnout to be known upon delivery of the Minutes of the Electoral Committees, which will also be the final turnout in the elections for councilors of the Belgrade City Assembly and councilors for city municipal assemblies," he said. is Lukic.
He added that this year GIK provided a YouTube channel on which all data changes in the election cycle are updated after entering the minutes into the system, but that the data can also be monitored on the interactive board in the hall of GIK, as well as on the website of the Republic Election Commission. .
Lukić also said that the City Election Commission is obliged to determine the preliminary results of the election in accordance with the law by tomorrow at 20:XNUMX at the session.
The CRTA observation mission announced the projection that by 19:41,5 p.m., XNUMX percent of citizens with the right to vote had voted in the Belgrade elections.
This is a 13,3 percent lower turnout compared to the December elections.
"It is estimated that by the end of the voting day in the Belgrade elections, between 220 and 250 thousand fewer voters will vote compared to the December elections," said program director of Crta Raša Nedeljkov.
He said that electoral irregularities were recorded both inside and outside the polling stations.
Photographing of ballots and other processes that violate the secrecy of voting - such as the presence of unauthorized persons at the polling stations - were recorded inside the polling stations.
Some of the irregularities include voting without an ID card or a valid document.
Outside the polling stations, as Nedeljkov said, among other things, vote buying and circular voting, even the sale of ballots, were recorded.
A total of eight criminal reports were submitted to the police.
Nedeljkov also said that it is still being assessed whether the irregularities will affect the election result.
Tadić: Now the key unity of the opposition
The president of the opposition Social Democratic Party and former president of Serbia, Boris Tadić, assessed tonight that most of the "engineering of election theft" took place before today's election day, and that now the unity of the opposition is key.
He wrote on the social network Iks (X) that the unity of the opposition is crucial, regardless of whether it "uniformly goes to the elections, or uniformly boycotts them, or simply fights for better electoral conditions."
"All the incidents we are witnessing all day once again show that even today we actually had no choice and that is why, instead of waiting for the results of the 'election', the opposition must come up with a unique and clear plan to fight against the regime's engineering, which is why we have not had real elections in Serbia for years. ", assessed Tadić.
Vučić: The batterers are beating honest people from SNS
Officials arrived at the headquarters of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), among them the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and the Speaker of the Parliament, Ana Brnabić.
To the N1 journalist's comment that "people are fighting in the streets", the Speaker of the Parliament replied: "You are beating people in the streets".
Behind her, Vučić answered:
"It's not the people fighting, but the thugs are beating the honest people from the SNS, because the SNS cannot win and tonight we will win even more convincingly than last time, so that you would rejoice even more," Vučić replied to the journalist.
Lazović: The boycott affected the election result
One of the leaders of the opposition coalition "Biramo" and MP Radomir Lazović said that the coalition hopes to win in Niš, Novi Sad and Belgrade municipalities.
"We hope that change will come today," Lazović said.
As he said, the projections are that the turnout in Belgrade is around 46 percent.
"We can say that the boycott did not receive much support from the citizens, but it did affect the election result," added Lazović.
According to him, the boycott campaign only in Belgrade and only by some organizations that appear in other cities created confusion among voters.
According to him, his opposition coalition had "two opponents - SNS and yesterday's coalition colleagues".
He pointed out that that coalition had good cooperation with the "Move-Change" movement, and that he would invite that electoral list to discuss cooperation in the future.
He also pointed to electoral irregularities during the voting.
"Since this morning, we have stopped the SNS machinations and voter pressure centers in more than ten locations. We managed to respond to the huge SNS attack on democracy on this day," said Lazović.
Vučević: SNS won in all municipalities, except Bačka Topola, Kanjiža, Senta and Tutin
The president of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), Miloš Vučević, said today that the electoral list "Srbija Sutra", led by that party, won all local elections, except in Bačka Topola, Senta, Kanjiža and Tutin.
"In those four municipalities, it is natural because of the structure of the population," Vučević told reporters at the SNS premises in Belgrade.
According to him, the highest turnout was in Pećinci - 70 percent, and the lowest in Tutin - 33 percent.
According to SNS estimates, the turnout, he added, ranges between 44 and 50 percent.
Manojlović: Good result, but nothing to celebrate, the most irregular election so far
Savo Manojlović, the candidate for mayor of Belgrade from the "Go-change" movement, said this evening that in today's local elections, that movement achieved the best percentage result of the opposition since 2012, but that the elections were "the most irregular so far" and that "there is nothing to celebrate".
"We sent a clear instruction to the 'Kreni-promeni' controllers not to sign the election records," Manojlović said at the press conference after the closing of the polling stations.
He said that in a country where such election conditions prevail, despite a good result, "there is nothing to celebrate".
Manojlović added that a good election result was achieved thanks to the engagement of all the controllers and candidates of that list.
"As well as those who supported us in impossible conditions and with a budget that did not allow us to have even one billboard... What experience could not, because these people have no experience, made up for the heart," he said.
Grbović: Despite the irregularities and the boycott, we have something to hope for in the central city municipalities
The president of the Movement of Free Citizens (PSG), Pavle Grbović, assessed tonight that, despite numerous irregularities and the boycott, the "We Choose Belgrade" coalition, of which the PSG is a part, has something to hope for regarding the results of the elections in the central Belgrade municipalities.
"When it comes to city municipalities, I think the numbers show that we have something to hope for, especially when it comes to central municipalities," Grbović told the Beta agency at the coalition's election headquarters.
He believes that the results will be interesting for the city municipality of Novi Beograd, where, as he said, the turnout was slightly higher than in the city.
"In a way, we expected a greater response from voters in the municipalities of Palilula and Zvezdara," said Grbović.
He also said that it is obvious that they will not be able to have reliable results from the municipal elections until before 22.30:23 and XNUMX p.m., explaining that this is because the votes from the city assembly elections are counted first.
"Then we will be able to make an assessment about election day," said Grbović.
He added that election day passed with a large number of "expected irregularities".
"I think we reacted quite well to that and managed to stop some of them, but it is certain that there were some that we did not cover to the end," Grbović said.
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