July 2 (SeeNews) - The conservative Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS) claims that it has passed the 3% threshold in the country's recent parliamentary elections after a vote re-run at 234 polling stations, local media reported on Thursday.
Based on 75% of the ballots counted by POKS in the 234 polling stations where the elections were repeated, the coalition led by the movement has won 3.06% of the votes and will become the fourth political formation to enter parliament, Tanjug news agency quoted POKS president Zika Gojkovic as saying.
"Today is a big day. The monarchists entered the Parliament of Serbia for the first time in 75 years. In just three years, we managed to grow into the fourth political force in Serbia, and that is a huge success," Tanjug quoted Gojkovic as saying.
POKS won 2.63% of the votes in the general election held on June 21, the country's election commission said on June 26, based on the ballots cast in 97.23% of polling stations. Back then the commission said the vote will be re-run in 234 of a total of 8,433 polling stations due to irregularities during election day.
Ruling populist conservative Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) won 60.68% of the vote, versus 10.35% for a coalition led by the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), a partner of SNS in the current government coalition. Only one more party managed to pass the election threshold which was lowered to 3% from 5% in January. The Serbian Patriotic Alliance (SPAS), a populist conservative party describing itself as a centre-right organisation which participated in general elections for the first time in its history, won 3.86% of the vote.