Vojvodina Assembly

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Designate Milos Vucevic, who will present his programme to MPs on Wednesday, announced Maja Gojkovic had been given the mandate to form the new government of Serbia's Vojvodina province.

Vucevic was speaking to reporters after a session of the presidency of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party.

NOVI SAD - The electoral commission of Serbia's northern Autonomous Province of Vojvodina has adopted a consolidated report on the final results of the December 17/30 elections for the Vojvodina Assembly.

The opposition SRS party group in the Assembly of Vojvodina will submit an initiative to open a Serb-Russian center in this Serbian province.

NOVI SAD - President of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) Istvan Pastor said Tuesday that he expected to meet with Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leader Aleksandar Vucic very soon to agree "a deal in principle" with him after he had stated his plan to propose Pastor as president of the Vojvodina Assembly.
    

NOVI SAD - The electoral list headed by Aleksandar Vucic's Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) won 52.50 percent of the seats in the Vojvodina Assembly following the provincial elections on Sunday, Jelena Zlojutro of the Provincial Election Commission (PIK) said Monday.
    

BELGRADE - Election silence, which will remain in place until the closure of polling stations at 8 pm Sunday, began at midnight in Serbia, banning political parties from engaging in pre-election activities.

From 7 am Sunday, when the polling stations open, Serbian citizens will elect the new national parliament and the Vojvodina provincial assembly, as well as most local assemblies.

Nenad Canak and Aleksandar Vucic at Serbian government | Photo by Beta

Serbian Prime Minister and ruling Progressive Party leader Aleksandar Vucic met leading Vojvodina politician Nenad Canak on June 24 in what analysts say is a move designed to seek new political allies in the opposition-run province.

NOVI SAD - Vojvodina Assembly Speaker Istvan Pastor and Canadian Ambassador to Serbia Philip Pinnington talked on Tuesday about the respect of human and minority rights in that province and the economic cooperation between Serbia and Canada.

BELGRADE - The police have arrested head of the Democratic Party (DS) group in the Automonous Province of Vojvodina Assembly and former director of the public enterprise Zavod za izgradnju grada Novi Sad Borslav Novakovic and another three individuals on suspicion that they have damaged the city of Novi Sad budget by EUR 4 million.

"Šešelj is symbol of ethnic cleansing"

BELGRADE -- Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia President Sonja Biserko says SRS party leader Vojislav Šešelj is "a symbol of ethnic cleansing."