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2023 Serbian Election Protests
On 18 December 2023, a series of mass protests began in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, after the 2023 Serbian parliamentary election, parliamentary and 2023 Belgrade City Assembly election, Belgrade City Assembly elections on 17 December. The protests were organised by the opposition Serbia Against Violence (coalition), Serbia Against Violence (SPN) coalition, the Students Against Violence (later Struggle) youth organisation, and the ProGlas initiative. According to monitoring and non-governmental organisations, such as CeSID, CRTA, and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the election day was marked with electoral fraud, with irregularities such as vote buying, ballot-box stuffing, Bulgarian train, and group voting occurring. The ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) denied all the allegations. In Belgrade, the election also resulted in a hung parliament, considering that no side had a majority to form a government. During the protests, the organisers call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Serbian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 17 December 2023 to elect members of the National Assembly (Serbia), National Assembly. While they were initially scheduled to be held by 30 April 2026, Aleksandar Vučić, the president of Serbia, called a snap election in November 2023. In addition to the parliamentary elections, the 2023 Vojvodina provincial election, Vojvodina provincial and 2023 Serbian local elections, local elections were held in 65 cities and municipalities, including the capital, 2023 Belgrade City Assembly election, Belgrade. The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) came to power after the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election, 2012 election when it formed a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia. In the 2022 Serbian general election, 2022 parliamentary election, SNS lost its parliamentary majority while opposition parties returned to the National Assembly. The United for the Victory of Serbia alliance, which placed second, was dissolved shortly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marinika Tepić
Marinika Tepić (; sr-Cyrl, Мариника Тепић, ; born 8 August 1974) is a Serbian politician. She is a vice-president of the Party of Freedom and Justice (''Stranka slobode i pravde'', SSP) and a prominent figure in the opposition to Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić. Tepić was Secretary for Sports and Youth in the Government of Vojvodina from 2012 to 2016 and a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2016 to 2020. Prior to joining the SSP on its formation in 2019, she was at different times a member of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (''Liga socijaldemokrata Vojvodine'', LSV) and the New Party (''Nova stranka'', NOVA). She was re-elected to the national assembly in the 2022 parliamentary election as the list bearer for the ''United for the Victory of Serbia'' alliance of opposition parties. Early life and career Tepić was born to an ethnic Romanian family in Pančevo, in what was then the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in the Soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vote Buying
Vote buying (also referred to as electoral clientelism and patronage politics) occurs when a political party or candidate distributes money or resources to a voter in an upcoming election with the expectation that the voter votes for the actor handing out monetary rewards. Vote buying can take various forms such as a monetary exchange, as well as an exchange for necessary goods or services. This practice is often used to incentivise or persuade voters to turn out to elections and vote in a particular way. Although this practice is illegal in many countries such as the United States, Argentina, Mexico, Kenya, Brazil and Nigeria, its prevalence remains worldwide. In some parts of the United States in the mid- and late 19th century, members of competing parties would vie, sometimes openly and other times with much greater secrecy, to buy and sell votes. Voters would be compensated with cash or the covering of one's house/tax payment. To keep the practice of vote buying secret, parties w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Fraud
Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of rival candidates, or both. It differs from but often goes hand-in-hand with voter suppression. What exactly constitutes electoral fraud varies from country to country. Electoral legislation outlaws many kinds of election fraud, * also at but other practices violate general laws, such as those banning assault, harassment or libel. Although technically the term "electoral fraud" covers only those acts which are illegal, the term is sometimes used to describe acts which are legal, but considered morally unacceptable, outside the spirit of an election or in violation of the principles of democracy. Show elections, featuring only one candidate, are sometimes classified as electoral fraud, although they may comply with the law and are presente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
