January 8 (SeeNews) - Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vucic said over the weekend that in the capital Belgrade there may be a repeat of the December elections, which triggered a wave of protests over alleged vote fraud.
“In a re-run of elections in Belgrade, they [the oppositon] would not get more votes. Wait and see, since it is possible that we will have it [a repeat vote],” Vucic said, as seen in a video posted on the YouTube page of private TV channel Pink on Sunday.
The SNS won 46.75% of the votes in the early general election which were held simultaneously with local elections. The Socialist Party of Serbia, a partner of SNS in the current government coalition, was backed by 6.55%, and together, the two formations will have an absolute majority in the 250-seat parliament. The main opposition force, the Serbia Against Violence coalition, came in second with 23.66% of the vote.
In Belgrade, SNS, won 37.48% of the vote, while the Serbia Against Violence coalition won 34.38%.
On December 30, Serbia held a partial re-run of the vote at 28 out of 8,273 polling stations.
On December 20, the European Union said Serbia's electoral process requires tangible improvement, after a team of international observers pointed to a series of irregularities, such as "vote buying" and "ballot box stuffing”.