CeSID: SNS clear winner with 48.2 percent

CeSID: SNS clear winner with 48.2 percent

BELGRADE -- The Serb Progressive Party (SNS)-led coalition won 48.2 percent, or 156 seats in parliament, in early elections held on Sunday, CeSID has said.

The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) and United Serbia (JS) coaliition came in second with 13.6 percent, or 44 seats, according to CeSID's final projections.

The Democratic Party (DS) won 6.3 percent, while the New Democratic Party (NDS) took 5.7, CeSID representatives told a news conference at Tanjug's Press Center.

The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) won 4.2 percent, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won 3.4, United Regions of Serbia (URS) 3 and the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) 2 percent.

According to data from CeSID, three minority parties, the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM), Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and Riza Halimi's Party of Democratic Action (PDD), will also get seats in parliament.

The SVM will have 7 seats, followed by the SDA with 3 and PDD with 2.

The SNS also won the local election in Belgrade, taking 42.5 percent of the votes, with the DS in second place with 16.1 percent, according to CeSID.

The SPS-PUPS-JS coalition won 11.6 percent of the votes in Belgrade, while the DSS got 6.6 percent.

The other parties did not reach the threshold in Belgrade.

The SNS should have 62 councilors in the city hall, according to these results, while the DS would get 23 seats, SPS-PUPS-JS 16 and DSS 9.

The turnout for the local election in Belgrade was 50.5 percent, according to CeSID's estimates.

CeSID Executive Director Marko Blagojević stressed that the votes from Kosovo...