April 3 (SeeNews) - Serbia will hold a rerun of Belgrade's municipal election on June 2, parliament speaker Ana Brnabic said.
"It is my legal and constitutional obligation to sign the decree by midnight. It could have been earlier, but at the request of the opposition and Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic, the Belgrade elections were moved to June 2,” Brnabic said, as seen in a video published by Tanjug news agency.
The populist conservative Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) of president Vucic won the December 17 parliamentary election, which was held simultaneously with the municipal elections. The main opposition alliance, Serbia Against Violence, which came in second, insisted that both elections were allegedly fraught with irregularities, sparking significant street protests.
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”.