Polling place

BELGRADE - Election silence, which will remain in place until the closure of polling stations at 8 pm Sunday, began at midnight in Serbia, banning political parties from engaging in pre-election activities.

From 7 am Sunday, when the polling stations open, Serbian citizens will elect the new national parliament and the Vojvodina provincial assembly, as well as most local assemblies.

No serious incidents or violations have been reported by Sunday noontime (EET) as Bulgarians are casting ballots in local elections and a referendum on online voting.

Two polling stations in Turkey?s southeastern province of ??rnak have been moved despite a decision by the Supreme Election Board (YSK) rejecting the relocation of ballot boxes for ?security? reasons.   

Bulgarians living abroad will be able to vote in the national referendum on October 25 on the introduction of remote electronic voting at 312 polling stations in 45 countries.

The largest numbers of polling stations will be opened in the US, Spain, and Germany, according to a media statement of Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission (CEC).

Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader Panos Kammenos voted at about 9am at a polling station in Heraklion.

Exiting the polling station he stated that today’s elections includes a message that Greek people should send. “The Greek people must give a vote of confidence in the future and not immunity to the past”.

In Greece people usually vote in school buildings which are used as polling stations, but this is not always the case for other countries.

There are many voters in United Kingdom who found themselves marking their ballot in the weirdest locations; caravans, garages and pubs were transformed into polling stations for the election day.

A garage in Croydon

Over 58,000 policemen, gendarmes, border policemen, firemen and employees of other operative structures are on duty on Sunday to secure a smooth unfolding of the voting process, in full accordance with the in force legislation, Interior Ministry (MAI) spokesperson Monica Dajbog told a press conference.

The Federation of Associations of Romanians in Europe (FADERE) request the resignation of Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean for the "poor organization" of the elections abroad and request the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) to extend the voting hours in the polling stations abroad in order for all those queuing to be able to exercise their right to vote.

The Central Electoral Bureau will be the authority that informs the public on the attendance of the Sunday presidential ballot abroad, at the times set in the Bureau's decision 51/2014, the Electoral Bureau No. 48 for the polling stations abroad informed AGERPRES through a media release on Friday.

The president of the electoral bureau of the polling station will examine the copies of medical documents or other official documents attached to the written request to exercise the voting rights through the special ballot box, proving that the persons in question are non-transportable, the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) says in a decision adopted on Friday.