IFES Election Guide - Election Profile for Serbia

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Country: Serbia
Official Name: Republic of Serbia
Election Type: Parliamentary
Date: January 21, 2007

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At stake in this election:

250 seats in the National Assembly

Description of government structure:

Chief of State: President Boris TADIC *
Head of Government: Prime Minister Vojislav KOSTUNICA
Assembly: Serbia has a unicameral National Assembly with 250 seats.

* The President is elected by absolute majority vote to serve a 5-year term which is renewable once.

Description of electoral system:

The President is elected by absolute majority vote to serve a 5-year term.
In the National Assembly 250 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.

Main parties in the electoral race:

Party: Serbian Radical Party (SRS)
Leader: Vojislav SESELJ
Seats won in this election: 81
Seats won in last election: 82
Party: Democratic Party (DS)
Leader: Boris TADIC
Seats won in this election: 64
Seats won in last election: 37
Coalition: Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) - New Serbia (NS)***
Leader: Vojislav KOSTUNICA (DSS)
Seats won in this election: 47
Seats won in last election: 62
Party: G17 Plus
Leader: Mladjan DINKIC
Seats won in this election: 19
Seats won in last election: 34
Party: Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)
Leader: Ivica DACIC
Seats won in this election: 16
Seats won in last election: 22
Party: Liberal Democratic Party �€“led coalition******
Leader: Cedomir JOVANOVIC (LDP)
Seats won in this election: 15
Seats won in last election: N/A
Party: Other Candidates
Leader: N/A
Seats won in this election: 0
Seats won in last election: 0

*** In the last election, the Democratic Party of Serbia obtained 53 seats and the New Serbia won 9.
****** Established in 2005 by a fraction of the Democratic Party, the Liberal Democratic Party will run in this election as part of a coalition with the Civic Alliance of Serbia, the Social Democratic Union and the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina.