- According to estimates by the election research institutes Ipsos and Cesid, the incumbent head of state Aleksandar Vucic clearly won the presidential election in Serbia, as expected.
- According to calculations by both institutes, Vucic received 59.8 percent of the votes and his strongest opponent, Zdravko Ponos, 17 percent.
- According to the election research institutes, Vucic’s SNS party is in first place in parliament with 43.6 percent, followed by the Parteu Ujedinjeni with 12.8 percent.
Vucic can therefore start his second term in a row. The national electoral commission announced that the first projections based on counting results would not be published until Monday evening. According to the Serbian civil rights organization CRTA, the turnout was 55.1 percent.
Several opposition politicians reported irregularities in voting. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) wants to comment on this on Monday. The nationalist Vucic has been in charge of politics in Serbia since 2012.
Went to Serbia for the election
For the first time, ethnic Serbs from Kosovo were not allowed to vote in the Serbian elections where they lived, but had to travel to Serbia to vote. The reason for this was that Belgrade and Pristina could not agree on a voting procedure in Kosovo.
So far, the ethnic Kosovo Serbs have been allowed to vote in Serbian elections in their home country. Kosovan Prime Minister Albin Kurti had demanded that Belgrade contact Pristina directly on the matter. The Serbian government rejected this because it sees such a step as an indirect recognition of Kosovo as a state.