The 21 lists of candidates on the Serbian election ballots

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Serbian voters have a choice of 21 parties, coalitions and "citizens' groups" to choose from on the ballot for the parliamentary and local elections on Sunday.

The number on the ballot is based on the time that the registration of the lists of candidates were submitted, first come first served.

The Number 1 list is headed by President Aleksandar Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) under the name Aleksandar Vucic – For Our Children. The list includes candidates from smaller coalition partners such as Trade Minister Rasim Ljajic’s Social Democrat Party. The candidate at the top of the list is Agriculture Minister Branislav Nedimovic.

The number 2 list is a coalition of Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic’s Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and Dragan Markovic Palma’s United Serbia (JS) under the name Ivica Dacic – SPS, JS – Dragan Markovic Palma. The list of candidates includes celebrities, former athletes and Josip Broz Tito’s grandson Joska Broz.

The number 3 on the ballot is Vucic’s former party, the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party named Dr Vojislav Seselj – SRS. The SRS traditionally runs alone in elections with party leader Seselj topping the list.

Number 4 on the list is the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians under the name Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians – Istvan Pastor, a SNS coalition partner who is going it alone at the elections and is expected to do well in its native Vojvodina which has a large ethnic Hungarian population.  

Number 5 is the list headed by former waterpolo star turned New Belgrade municipal Mayor and head of the SPAS party Aleksandar Sapic under the name Aleksandar Sapic – Victory for Serbia. This is Sapic’s first attempt to win a seat in parliament.  

The number 6 on the ballot is the royalist Movement For a Kingdom of Serbia under the name For a Kingdom of Serbia – POKS, MF – Zika Gojkovic.  

Number 7 on the list is United Democratic Serbia (UDS), a coalition of 11 parties and organizations including former officials from several opposition parties. The UDS candidates include a number of people who have been MPs for years.  

Number 8 is a coalition formed by former Mufti Muamer Zukorlic’s Party of Justice and Reconciliation and the Democratic Party of Macedonians under the name Academic Muamer Zukorlic – Just Go Forward.  

Number 9 is the coalition Metla 2020, headed by the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and rallying local organizations and the head of a military union.  

Number 10 is Better Serbia – Healthy Serbia which is headed by the Mayors of Cajetina and Topola as well as a former Kragujevac Mayor.  

Number 11 is the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) of the Sandzak area headed by Bosniak politician and former cabinet Minister Sulejman Ugljanin under the name SDA Sandzak – Sulejman Ugljanin.  

Number 12 is the nationalist Serb Party Zavetnici (oath makers) under the name Milica Djurdjevic Stamenkovski – Serb Party Zavetnici. The list of candidates is headed by a surgeon and not party leader Stamenkovski.  

Number 13 is the Popular Block coalition headed by New Serbia leader Velimir Ilic, with a number of disgruntled members of the SNS and other parties.  

Number 14 is the Movement of Free Citizens (PSG) under the name Sergej Trifunovic – PSG. The party, header by actor Trifunovic, decided against the election boycott advocated by most of the rest of the opposition some two weeks before the vote.  

Number 15 on the ballot is the Sovereignist movement, formerly Dosta Je Bilo whose leader Sasa Radulovic tops the list of candidates under the name Sovereignist. Radulovic was a cabinet minister who turned against the authorities.  

Number 16 is the national minority Albanian Democratic Alternative appearing under the name Albanian Democratic Alternative – United Valley with a list of just 11 candidates.  

Number 17 is the 1 in 5 Million protest movement which has turned into what Serbian election law calls a citizens’ group so that they can field candidates.  

Number 18 is the coalition formed by the Greens and former Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic’s Nova Stranka under the name Let the Masks Fall.  

Number 19 is the Russian national minority’s Russian Party under the name Russian Party – Slobodan Nikolic.  

Number 20 is the Coalition for Peace formed by the Liberal Democrat Party with a number of national minority candidates under the name Cedomir Jovanovic – Coalition for Peace.  

Number 21 is the Levijatan Movement which claims to have been formed as an animal rights group but has been reported to have been involved in several nationalist incidents under the name Levijatan Movement – I Live for Serbia.