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With less than one year before crucial local and parliamentary elections, members of the ruling centre-left Social Democratic Party, PSD, overwhelmingly voted for Dragnea as the party's new leader on Sunday.

Serbia needs its current, "incompetent government" changed, leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDS) Boris Tadic said Friday.

Tadic argues that the return of a "strong opposition option" would mean a return of democracy to Serbia.

Romania's parliament may force supermarkets to sell more domestic fruits, vegetables and meat in a move to support local farmers.

A draft law passed on Tuesday said 51 per cent of products sold in big storses will have to be produced or grown in Romania.

The ruling centre-right coalition, composed of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the People's Party (CDS-PP), won the general elections held in Portugal on Sunday.

With almost all votes counted, the centre-right coalition leads with 37 % of the votes, followed by the Socialists with 32 %.

The Montenegrin government on Thursday said it would not resign as a result of opposition had protests in front of parliament demanding early elections.

The government said the opposition demands were "unconstitutional and undemocratic" and urged opposition MPs to return to parliament and try to "challenge the legitimacy of the government in parliamentary procedure".

After months of work, the first glimpses of the program of the strongest opposition party, the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, have been revealed.

The daily Vecernji list on Wednesday published an overview of the HDZ's program for Croatian parliamentary elections in November, which will be presented in full on Thursday.

Opposition lawmakers in Romania have failed in their bid to topple the government of Victor Ponta after a no-confidence vote mustered only 207 votes, well short of the 275 needed.

Most parliamentarians from Ponta's ruling Social Democratic Party, PSD, and its two junior allies did not vote.

With parliamentary elections expected in November, the economy, the refugee crisis and voter trust in the main leadership candidates are likely to dominate the debate, sayspolitical analyst.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is hoping to ensure the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) under the 10 percent electoral threshold by fighting Turkey's security forces, the head of Turkey's biggest social democratic party has said.

The head of the Privatization Agency in Bosnia's Federation entity, Suhret Fazlic, has resigned in a disagreement over the government's decision to form a private company that would assume some of the agency's responsibilities.