Serbia General Elections Likely Scheduled for Spring

Reading Time: < 1 minute

In Serbia, early parliamentary elections will likely be held between 20 March 20 and 3 April of next year. Those dates have been leaked from talks between the ruling party coalition and the opposition on Monday. The presidential and municipal elections will presumably be held at the same time.

Negotiations have been going on between the opposition and the governing coalition in Serbia since 2019 when a majority of the Serbian opposition announced a boycott of the 2020 elections due to, as they claimed, the unfair domination of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in the media and state institutions.

The European Parliament has been acting as a mediator in the talks. Vladimir Bilčik, a member of the European Parliament delegation, has recently suggested that a document laying down the foundations for a compromise between the parties could be prepared by this September.

The development of the so-called “Inter Party Dialogue” on electoral conditions is seen by Brussels as a test of Serbian democracy and carries weight in the country’s progress toward EU accession.

Source: Serbian monitor

Balazs Szilagyi

Recent Posts

As EU probes TikTok, precedent-setting Romania announces date for election rerun

Romania’s government has approved a repeat presidential election in May after institutional chaos and controversy…

16 hours ago

NATO launches ‘Baltic Sentry’ patrols to counter infrastructure attacks

NATO deployed a multinational flotilla off the Estonian coast at the weekend to defend undersea…

16 hours ago

Polish presidential candidates begin election drive

Poland's presidential election campaign has officially begun, ahead of a pivotal vote for the Central…

16 hours ago

What Trump presidency means for CEE

US President Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony on Monday, 20 January, broke with tradition and extended…

17 hours ago

Croatia returns incumbent in landslide presidential election vote

Croatian President Zoran Milanovic secured a decisive re-election victory, defeating his conservative challenger in a…

1 week ago

Checks remain at Romania-Hungary rail border

Although Romania joined the Schengen free travel area at the beginning of 2025, international trains…

1 week ago