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Belgrade Mayor Aleksandar Sapic has failed to report to Serbia's Agency for the Prevention of Corruption a villa he bought in 2018 in Trieste, which he was obliged to do by law, BIRN can reveal. The villa is located in Opicina, some five kilometres from Trieste city centre.

After the Serbian Progressive Party won the most votes in Belgrade City Assembly elections on March 4, Serbian bookies are suggesting that senior party official Irena Vujovic is the most likely to become mayor of the capital. 

Last weekend's Belgrade elections left 20 of the competitors without seats in the capital's municipal assembly, among them the former ruling Democratic Party and the Serbian Radical Party, demonstrating that there is a crisis within the political opposition, experts told BIRN.

BELGRADE - Serbian Progressive Party leader and President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic cast his vote in the Belgrade local elections in the municipality of New Belgrade on Sunday morning.

Vucic appeared at polling station No. 27 in the Zepter International building shortly after 9.15 am.

The ruling Serbian Progressive Party won most votes in Sunday's Belgrade City Assembly elections and will most likely continue to run the capital for the next four years, preliminary results show.

Party chief and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said the party's nominee for the post of mayor would be revealed within 15 days.

Three children aged five, seven and nine, died on Thursday night when a fire broke in the barracks in which they lived in New Belgrade municipality.

Rade Milosevic, chief of the city department for emergency situations, said the fire erupted in the 20-square-metre barracks quickly as it was made of cardboard and wooden boards.