Elections for municipal assembly members were held in Negotin, Mionica and Sečanj, Serbia, and the polls closed at 20 p.m.
Four electoral lists participated in the elections in Negotin, six in Mionica, and five in Sečanj, and the polling stations opened at seven o'clock.
In Negotin, by 18 p.m., turnout was 52,6 percent, in Mionica 74,1, and in Sečanj 64,4 percent of the number of registered voters.
In Negotin, the local parliament has 45 councilors, and citizens chose from four electoral lists previously announced by the Municipal Election Commission (MEC).
These are the list "Aleksandar Vučić - Best for Negotin" with candidates from the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) and the Serbian Radical Party (SRS). There is also the list United for Negotin, which was formed, with the support of students, by the informal group of citizens "Negotin with Students", the Party of Freedom and Justice, the People's Movement of Serbia, the Democratic Party and the Serbia Center.
Two lists of citizens' groups also participated in the elections - "Europe and Youth - For Our Negotin" and "Serbian Liberals - For a Green Negotin".
Six electoral lists participated in Mionica, and on ballot number one was the electoral list "Aleksandar Vučić - best for Mionica".
This list consists of councilor candidates from the SNS, SPS, PUPS and SRS.
There is the list of Rasim Ljajić's Social Democratic Party of Serbia - "SDPS - Marko Zeman", as well as the list "Bunt-Prava Srbija", with the status of a party of the Russian national minority.
The ballot also included the lists "United for Mionica", "Education and Knowledge against Corruption and Crime Milan Gavrilović – Ćićovan" and "For the Salvation and Reconstruction of Mionica Villages – Radovan Rade Marković – Mirko Jović".
The local parliament in Mionica consists of 39 councilors.
In Sečanj, the first list to be announced was "Aleksandar Vučić - best for Sečanj", submitted by the SNS, while the second list to be announced was "Ivica Dačič - SPS - for the municipality of all of us".
There were also lists "Vukašin Baćina - for a better municipality of Sečanj", "The voice of the youth that changes Sečanj" and "Vojislav Šešelj - Serbian Radical Party".
In Sečanj, 23 councilors were elected to the local parliament.
Independent observers and MPs from certain opposition parties reported that they were exposed to threats and physical attacks during election day in Mionica.
The Green Left Front (ZLF) announced that a member of parliament from the opposition party was attacked on Sunday afternoon in Mionica.
A major fight broke out in a cafe in Mionica after the people who attacked Green-Left Front (ZLF) MP Bogdan Radovanović retreated into the building and threw bottles at people outside, N1 television reported earlier today.
The fight occurred near polling station 30, in the village of Rajković, Mionica.
The president of the Democratic Party (DS), Srđan Milivojević, asked the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime to "immediately order the arrest" of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić because he believes he is the organizer of a "criminal group" that operated during the local elections in Mionica, Negotin and Sečanj during the day.
"What we saw was not an electoral process but a mafia fair. Before the eyes of the police, thugs and operatives of an advanced criminal organization are carrying out violence, intimidation and reshaping the electoral will, turning these municipalities into new outposts of Ćacilend," Milivojević said in a statement.
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