Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians

NOVI SAD - The assembly of Serbia's Vojvodina province on Thursday elected Balint Juhas of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) as its new speaker.

Eighty-one of 120 assembly members in attendance voted in favour of Juhas, 28 voted against and six took no part in the vote.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said on Wednesday elections for the Belgrade city assembly and the remaining local polls in Serbia would be held simultaneously on June 2, in line with an opposition demand granted thanks to an appeal by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to demonstrate constructiveness so that "work can be continued after the elections."

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.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, the leader of the Serbian Progressive Party's (SNS) Serbia Must Not Stop electoral list, said on Sunday evening that, with 76 pct of votes counted but not including votes from Kosovo-Metohija, the list had won 46.5 pct of votes in the Serbian parliamentary elections, or more than 127 seats in the parliament.

BELGRADE - Serbia's national electoral commission on Wednesday approved an Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians electoral list for the December 17 early parliamentary polls in Serbia.

The electoral list, named Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians - For Our President, For Our Community, For The Future, will be a national minority list.

In the best traditions of Magyar Szó, Pressburger says he was promised total editorial independence. But the promise meant little.

"VMSZ tried to influence what we write about," Pressburger told BIRN. "First, they wanted to convince me not to be critical and to write more about VMSZ and less about the other parties."

Hungarian Prime Minister Vikor Orban will attend the September 27 opening of a football academy in the northern Serbian village of Backa Topola, which has been funded by the Hungarian government with 9.5 million euros.

BELGRADE - Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) leader Istvan Pastor on Tuesday said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic seemed to be under pressure over who would become the new PM.

Pastor said this after consultations with Vucic about the new PM, but declined to elaborate on the statement, adding it was his personal impression.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met on Friday with President of the Vojvodina Provicncial Assembly and Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians leader Istvan Pasztor.

Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) leader Istvan Pasztor was on Thursday reelected as the speaker of the assembly of Serbia's Vojvodina province.

The decision was carried by 91 votes for and 14 against, with 13 abstentions.