Elections

There will be no referendum on election rules in Bulgaria alongside the May 25 European Parliament elections.

BELGRADE - Russian Ambassador in Serbia Alexander Chepurin said that the voting in Crimea was very well organized and stressed that everything was done in accordance with the international law.

Voting has began in a referendum on whether Venice and its surrounding region should secede from the rest of Italy, Sunday.

Recent opinion polls suggest that two-thirds of the four million electorate favour splitting from Rome in an attempt to restore its 1,000-year history as a sovereign republic. However, the vote will not be legally binding, the BBC News reports.

BELGRADE – According to voter turnout figures, 50.3 percent of Serbia’s eligible voters cast their votes in the country’s early parliamentary elections by 7 p.m. Sunday, the Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID) said.

BELGRADE - The polling stations in Serbia closed at 8 p.m. CET, and 6,767,324 people had the right to vote in the early parliamentary election.

There were 8,262 polling stations in central Serbia and Vojvodina, which opened at 7 a.m. CET.

Parliamentary polls are expected to give more power to the Serbian Progressive Party as the next government faces the task of reviving the country’s devastated economy.

Around 93% of voters in Sunday's referendum in Crimea have backed joining Russia and seceding from Ukraine, according to exit polls quoted by Russian news agencies.

Turnout in Crimea's referendum reached 64 % by 3pm local time, according to referendum commission chief Mikhail Malyshev.

Malyshev, as cited by CNN, informed that no provocations at polling stations have been reported so far.

Residents of Crimea vote Sunday in a referendum on whether to split from Ukraine and join Russia.

The turnout in the referendum on whether Crimea should remain a part of Ukraine or separate from it reached 44.27 % Sunday noon local time.

According to the chief of the Crimean legislature's commission for holding the referendum, Mikhail Malyshev, as cited by ITAR-TASS, the highest turnout rates so far were registered in Kerch - 64.3 %, and in Armyansk, 73.1 %.

BELGRADE - The campaign ended for the early parliamentary elections that will be held in Serbia on Sunday, March 16, and election silence will be in force until the close of polls at 8 p.m. the same day.

In these polls, 6,767, 324 citizens will be eligible to vote and elect 250 MPs for the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.