Stojiljkovic

Trade unions announced they would ask for the minimum wage at RSD 209 per working hour and for minimum monthly wage to be increased by RSD 11,000. On the other hand, employers offer a 6-7% raise.

Analysts giving instant reactions to Vucic's first-round poll win on Sunday suggested that his triumph puts the Progressive Party leader in an unprecedentedly strong position to take the country in his chosen direction for the next five years.

Concerns have been raised about two proposed candidates for the board of the Anti-Corruption Agency who were put forward earlier this month by President Tomislav Nikolic because both of them work for the presidency.

"I see this as a conflict of loyalty," a former member of the Anti-Corruption Agency board, Zoran Stojiljkovic, told BIRN.

Zoran Stojiljkovic, head of Serbia's Anti-Corruption Agency, told BIRN that there are no objective indications that corruption was decreasing in Serbia even though the ruling Progressive Party won a decisive election in 2012 on an anti-corruption manifesto.

The only possible election strategy that could offer any success to Serbia's liberal opposition parties is to create a coalition that could challenge Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic's ruling Progressive Party, according to analysts.

BELGRADE - The Tanjug News Agency and the Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID) will on Sunday organise an event titled Election Night, at which they will release the first unofficial results of the Serbian early parliamentary elections and local elections in Belgrade.

Turnout figures and information on the regularity of the electoral process will be published hour by hour.