Electoral commission assigns mandates to new Serbian MPs

BELGRADE - Serbia's national electoral commission adopted on Monday a decision assigning mandates to the members of Serbia's new parliament.

The commission's president Vladimir Dimitrijevic noted that it had on January 12 adopted a consolidated report on the results of the December 17 early parliamentary elections.

The report was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia on January 12 this year and on the commission's website on the same day, whereby the conditions were created for the commission to assign mandates to MPs who were candidates of electoral lists that made it into the parliament, he said.

The Aleksandar Vucic-led Serbia Must Not Stop electoral list will have the absolute majority in the 250-seat parliament - 129 MPs, and is followed by the Serbia Against Violence list (65), the Ivica Dacic - PM of Serbia list (18), the HOPE coalition (13), the Branimir Nestorovic-led We, A Voice From The People list (13), the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (6), the Usame Zukorlic - Tomislav Zigmanov - United For Justice list (2), the Sulejman Ugljanin-led Democratic Action Party of Sandzak list (2), Saip Kamberi's The Political Struggle of Albanians Continues list (1) and the Slobodan Nikolic - Russian Party list (1).

The deadline for forming the new parliament is February 12 - 30 days after the announcement of the final electoral results.