Parliamentary elections were held in
Serbia
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on 16 March 2014, with nineteen electoral lists competing for 250 members of the
National Assembly
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. The election was called early, after tensions in the coalition led by the ruling
Serbian Progressive Party
The Serbian Progressive Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска напредна странка, Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) has been the ruling political party of Serbia since 2012.
Founded by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić in 2008 as a s ...
(SNS) and
Socialist Party of Serbia
The Socialist Party of Serbia ( sr, Социјалистичка партија Србије, Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS) is a political party in Serbia. It is led by Ivica Dačić.
It was founded in 1990 as the direct successor to ...
(SPS). President of Serbia
Tomislav Nikolić
Tomislav Nikolić ( sr-Cyrl, Томислав Николић, ; born 15 February 1952) is a Serbian retired politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2012 to 2017. A former member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS), he di ...
scheduled the election at the same time as the previously announced
Belgrade City Assembly election. Voter turnout was 53.09%, with 3.22% of votes invalid.
The
Serbian Progressive Party
The Serbian Progressive Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска напредна странка, Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) has been the ruling political party of Serbia since 2012.
Founded by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić in 2008 as a s ...
and their coalition won the election by a landslide, receiving just under half the valid votes and winning an absolute majority of 158 seats in the assembly. Its former partner the
Socialist Party of Serbia
The Socialist Party of Serbia ( sr, Социјалистичка партија Србије, Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS) is a political party in Serbia. It is led by Ivica Dačić.
It was founded in 1990 as the direct successor to ...
matched its previous achievement with 44 seats, while only two more non-ethnic lists surpassed the 5% threshold: the
Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
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(DS) with 19 seats, and the
New Democratic Party coalition led by former president
Boris Tadić
Boris Tadić ( sr-cyr, Борис Тадић, ; born 15 January 1958) is a Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2004 to 2012.
Born in Sarajevo, he graduated from the University of Belgrade with a degree in psycholo ...
with 18 seats.
[ A number of long-time parliamentary parties, notably the ]Democratic Party of Serbia
The New Democratic Party of Serbia ( sr, Нова демократска странка Србије, Nova demokratska stranka Srbije, , NDSS or New DSS) is a national-conservative political party in Serbia.
Initially known and formed as Democ ...
, United Regions of Serbia
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and the Liberal Democratic Party failed to cross the 5% threshold.
The election were the first since the 2000 elections
The following elections occurred in the year 2000.
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, after the ousting of Slobodan Milošević's government, that a party won the absolute majority of seats. Aleksandar Vučić
Aleksandar Vučić ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Вучић, ; born 5 March 1970) is a Serbian politician serving as the president of Serbia since 2017, and as the president of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) since 2012.
Vučić serve ...
announced the formation of a new government with a coalition between the parties the Serbian Progressive Party ran with.
Background
Following the last election, the coalition led by the Serbian Progressive Party
The Serbian Progressive Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска напредна странка, Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) has been the ruling political party of Serbia since 2012.
Founded by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić in 2008 as a s ...
(SNS) won a plurality. After two months of negotiations, the Serbian Progressive Party formed a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia
The Socialist Party of Serbia ( sr, Социјалистичка партија Србије, Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS) is a political party in Serbia. It is led by Ivica Dačić.
It was founded in 1990 as the direct successor to ...
(SPS). Ivica Dačić
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(SPS) became prime minister, while Aleksandar Vučić
Aleksandar Vučić ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Вучић, ; born 5 March 1970) is a Serbian politician serving as the president of Serbia since 2017, and as the president of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) since 2012.
Vučić serve ...
(SNS) became first deputy prime minister. The former ruling party and now main opposition, Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
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(DS), suffered heavy losses in the election but retained a majority in Belgrade, a coveted position in Serbian politics. An internal split within the DS over leadership following the election further weakened its position with the mayor of Belgrade
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, Dragan Đilas
Dragan Đilas ( sr-cyr, Драган Ђилас, , born 22 February 1967) is a Serbian businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Belgrade from 2008 to 2013.
From 25 November 2012 until 31 May 2014, he served as the President of the ...
(DS) losing a non-confidence vote
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.
With SNS ratings at an all-time high and growing tension within the ruling coalition, first deputy PM Aleksandar Vučić called for early parliamentary elections to be held. Some analysts believed that Vučić held the most influence in the government. Despite speculation that he would not, prime minister Ivica Dačić
Ivica Dačić ( sr-cyr, Ивица Дачић, ; born 1 January 1966) is a Serbian politician serving as first deputy prime minister of Serbia and minister of foreign affairs since 2022, roles which he previously served under governments of Mirk ...
agreed to hold early parliamentary elections. On 29 January, President Tomislav Nikolić
Tomislav Nikolić ( sr-Cyrl, Томислав Николић, ; born 15 February 1952) is a Serbian retired politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2012 to 2017. A former member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS), he di ...
responded to the calls by dissolving parliament and scheduling early elections for 16 March 2014.
Electoral system
The National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
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is a unicameral
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parliament with 250 seats. The entire country is a single whole electoral unit, with all votes accumulated together and then MPs allocated in accordance to the D'Hondt method
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. The electoral threshold
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is set at 5%. However, electoral lists that are officially submitted as aiming to represent one of the country's registered national minorities have no barrage set. That means that, according to the valid electoral law, such a list needs to win 0.4% of the total votes in order to secure its 1st MP seat.
Despite the rejection of the Kosovan Albanians and in context of the Kosovo problem, voting was still organized on the territory of Kosovo
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, as per UNSCR 1244 (1999) and the Kumanovo Technical Agreement. Voting in Kosovo was handled, and not just seen, by the OSCE
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.
A total of 8,262 voting stations were prepared on Serbian territory (excluding Kosovo). On 1 March the RIK declared that in Serbia there was a total of 6,767,324 eligible voters, which was some twelve thousand less than in 2012. The RIK subsequently formed 90 voting stations for the disputed territory of Kosovo.
Observers
The Center for Free Elections and Democracy was the only domestic observer. Among the international organizations that Serbia is a member of, neutral observers came from OSCE
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's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
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, the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, the OSCE Mission in Serbia and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The Commonwealth of Independent States
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, Albania
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and Russia
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sent observing missions from their domestic Commissions, and the American
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, British
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and Bulgaria
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n embassies in Belgrade sent observing missions. The elections were also observed by the Common Network of International Observers from Japan.
Electoral lists
The following are the official electoral lists published by the Republic Electoral Commission (RIK).
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Candidates
SNS-led coalition
The Serbian Progressive Party
The Serbian Progressive Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска напредна странка, Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) has been the ruling political party of Serbia since 2012.
Founded by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić in 2008 as a s ...
renewed their coalition with Velimir Ilić's New Serbia and Aleksandar Vulin
Aleksandar Vulin ( sr-cyr, Александар Вулин; born 2 October 1972) is a Serbian politician and lawyer serving as the director of the Security Intelligence Agency (BIA) since 1 December 2022. Additionally, he previously served as d ...
's Movement of Socialists
The Movement of Socialists ( sr, Покрет социјалиста, Pokret socijalista, PS) is a political party in Serbia. It was founded in 2008 by Aleksandar Vulin, who served as the party's president until 2022, when he was succeeded by B ...
from the 2012 election. The coalition was this time joined by Rasim Ljajić
Rasim Ljajić ( sr-cyrl, Расим Љајић, ; born 28 January 1964) is a Serbian politician who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and the Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications from 27 July 2012 to 28 October 2020. He i ...
's Social Democratic Party
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(SDPS) and Vuk Drašković
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's monarchist Serbian Renewal Movement
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, the former previously running with the Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
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*Demo ...
and the latter with the Liberal Democratic Party. In accordance with the coalition treaty, the SDPS was to receive at least 10 seats, New Serbia and the Serbian Renewal Movement each five, and Movement of Socialists three. The coalition took the name "Future We Believe In".
The Strength of Serbia Movement was a coalition partner in the previous election, but did not officially participate in 2014. Candidates from the party were still included in the coalition's lists. Both the and the People's Peasant Party
The People's Peasant Party ( sr, Народна Сељачка Странка, Narodna Seljačka Stranka; abbr. НСС or NSS) is an agrarian political party in Serbia.
History
It was founded in 1990, its first president being Dragan Vese ...
were also not official coalition partners, but had candidates appear on lists. Of the several parties of national minorities that participated in the coalition in 2012, all broke off cooperation except for the Bosniak People's Party, whose candidates appeared on the list. SNS' list also contains former prominent Social Democrat Ljiljana Nestorović, and architect Branka Bošnjak (previously in the URS).
The Progressives' list was backed in union with SDPS and the Sandžak People's Party, which signed an agreement of endorsement. On 9 February, the Civic Initiative of Gora
The Civic Initiative of Gora ( sr-Cyrl, Грађанска Иницијатива Горе, sr-Latn, Građanska Inicijativa Gore, sq, Nisma Qytetare e Gorës) is a Gorani political party in Kosovo.
History
The party held a seat in the Communi ...
decided to support SNS, and the next day the Movement of Laborers and Peasants also announced their support. SNS also received endorsement from the Dinara-Drina-Danube Movement, the United Peasant Party
The United Peasant Party ( sr, Уједињена сељачка странка, Ujedinjena seljačka stranka; abbr. УСС or USS) is a political party in Serbia. Its primary area of strength is in the municipality of Svrljig.
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Accor ...
, and the Roma Party
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. Through Rasim Ljajić
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's mediation, by March the Movement of Frontiersmen and the Diaspora agreed to endorse the electoral list.
Socialist Party of Serbia-lead coalition
The Socialist Party of Serbia
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It was founded in 1990 as the direct successor to ...
(SPS) retained their coalition with United Serbia
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History
It was founded on 15 February 2004, as a split from the far-right Party of Serbian Unity with Dragan ...
(JS) and the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia
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(PUPS). JS leader Dragan Marković
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announced that JS would ask for participation in the government rather than simply endorsing it like the two previous terms, asking for a minister's position for himself in the future government. The Socialist Party of Serbia did not include the Serbian Veteran Movement as it traditionally did, which broke off in late 2013 due to disagreement over policies regarding Kosovo
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.
Democratic Party of Serbia
The Democratic Party of Serbia
The New Democratic Party of Serbia ( sr, Нова демократска странка Србије, Nova demokratska stranka Srbije, , NDSS or New DSS) is a national-conservative political party in Serbia.
Initially known and formed as Democ ...
(DSS) of ex-prime minister Vojislav Koštunica
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considered forming a Eurosceptic "Patriotic Bloc" with Dveri
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and possibly the Serbian Radical Party
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. DSS later stated that it chose not to form a coalition with other parties that expressed interest because it felt that those parties did not fully embrace DSS positions and that they merely wanted to join for the purpose of entering parliament. DSS officially submitted to the Republic Electoral Commission its candidate electoral list on 6 February.
DSS' list contained candidates from the Serbian Veteran Movement, a party that was originally SPS' coalition partner.
DSS' campaign slogan was ''I know who I believe — the Democratic Party of Serbia'' ( Serbian Cyrillic: Знам коме верујем — Демократска странка Србије).
Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was originally invited to join Boris Tadić
Boris Tadić ( sr-cyr, Борис Тадић, ; born 15 January 1958) is a Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2004 to 2012.
Born in Sarajevo, he graduated from the University of Belgrade with a degree in psycholo ...
's Social Democratic Party
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in a coalition. After rejecting the offer, LDP attempted to arrange a coalition with the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina
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, its partner in the 2007 elections, and after talks failed the Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
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. After those negotiations fell through, LDP formed its own coalition with the Bosniak Democratic Union of Sandžak
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and the Social Democratic Union. The Association of Free and Independent Trade Unions endorsed LDP.
Hungarian minority
The Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians
The Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians ( hu, Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség; sr, Савез војвођанских Мађара, Savez vojvođanskih Mađara; abbr. СВМ, SVM, or VMSZ) is a regionalist political party in Serbia representing th ...
submitted its electoral list on 8 February, thus becoming the first national minority to do so. SVM leader István Pásztor announced the party's focus was secure the five seats won at the previous election.
Serbian Radical Party
The ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party
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(SRS) was invited to become a part of a Eurosceptic by the Dveri movement and DSS, which it rejected. Instead, SRS ran on its own list, including candidates from the clerofascist "Srbski Obraz" Movement (which was officially banned by the constitutional court
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in 2012) and the far-right SNP Naši.
The coalition received an open letter of support from Russian National Bolshevik
National Bolshevism (russian: национал-большевизм, natsional-bol'shevizm, german: Nationalbolschewismus), whose supporters are known as National Bolsheviks (russian: национал-большевики, natsional-bol'sheviki ...
political scientist Aleksandr Dugin
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Born into a military intelligen ...
of the International Eurasian Movement.
This list' electoral slogan was: ''Both Kosovo and Russia'' ( Serbian: И Косово и Русија, ''I Kosovo i Rusija''), a satire of the "both Kosovo and the EU" doctrine.
Democratic Party
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(DS), led by Dragan Đilas
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, announced that it would join a coalition with New Party (Nova), the Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina
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(DSHV), the Serbian Trade Union Organization Sloga (USS), and Rich Serbia (BS).
As a response to the DLR's coalition with Tadić's New Democratic Party, DS announced the support of 20 Romani NGOs and cultural and public laborers.
New Democratic Party
After former president Boris Tadić
Boris Tadić ( sr-cyr, Борис Тадић, ; born 15 January 1958) is a Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2004 to 2012.
Born in Sarajevo, he graduated from the University of Belgrade with a degree in psycholo ...
broke from the Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
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, he announced the formation of the New Democratic Party. For the 2014 election, the party entered a coalition with LSV, ZZS, some Bosniak and Hungarian minority parties and the Greens.
In early February, the Greens of Serbia officially decided to elect Tadić as their leader and merge with NDS, becoming the "New Democratic Party - The Greens". NDS-Greens signed an official coalition treaty mid-February with Together for Serbia (ZZS) and the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina
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(LSV); according to the treaty LSV would receive 6 MPs and ZZS 2, with the option for a 3rd MP for the latter should the common list win more than 10% votes.
Council of Serbian Unity-led Coalition
The Council of Serbian Unity announced the formation of the a coalition with various smaller parties:
* Serbian Movement Oathkeepers
* National Movement Revival of Serbia
* Serbian Movement Free Serbia
* Society of War Veterans, Invalids and the Families of Fell Fighters of Serbia
* Ravna Gora Movement
Other candidacies
Third Serbia
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, a nationalist movement that broke off from Dveri after the previous elections, announced that it would run in the election.
Opinion polls
Results
Preliminary results showed the Progressive-led coalition winning with 158 seats, while the SPS–PUPS–JS coalition came second with 44, the Democratic-led coalition third with 19 and Boris Tadić's coalition with 18.
Of the minorities, the SVM qualified with six seats, SDA with three seats and the Albanian minority list Party for Democratic Action with 2 seats.
Government formation
Although SNS alone had the required minimum of 126 seats, it maintained its pre-electoral coalition with SDPS, NS and SPO-DHSS, along with all of the lesser partners such as PS. Dačić noted that there were no discussions of government formation, but that SPS-PUPS-JS was ready to continue on where it left off. Đilas noted that the Democrats excluded any possibility of coalition and that they would have talks merely with President Nikolic, rejecting his call. While all of the three (Hungarian, Bosniak and Albanian) minority parties noted that they would enter the government, Ljajic explicitly noted that SDPS would not be a part of the future ruling coalition if SDA joined it. Tadić considered the Socialists responsible for bad policy so his coalition would not join with the Progressives' if a coalition with the SPS was restored.
References
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A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or subordinate entity) where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the support ("confidence") of the ...
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...
Parliamentary
A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or subordinate entity) where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the support ("confidence") of the ...