Local election commission confirms final results of voting in Sabac

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The local election commission in Serbia's western city of Sabac adopted a report on final election results for the city councillors as well as a decision on allocation of mandates, Tanjug news agency reported.

The ‘Aleksandar Vucic – For our children’ list won 37 mandates, the ‘Nebojsa Zelenovic – Sabac is ours’ list 22 mandates and the ‘Jelena Milosevic – New team for Sabac’ seven mandates. Other three lists – ‘Russian side – Slobodan Nikolic’, ‘United Democratic Serbia – a Chance’, and ‘Dr. Dejan Pavlovic – European Green Party’ won one mandate each.

Sabac saw repeated elections on October 3 at five polling stations, with less than half of the total of 5,829 eligible voters casting their ballots.

After three previous votes, the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) declared the victory but now former mayor Nebojsa Zelenovic claimed the elections were irregular.

The election results were annulled at 27 of 100 polling stations following the June 21 vote, while the results of the September 5 vote were annulled at five polling stations.

Zelenovic’s Together for Serbia Party disputes the legitimacy of decisions by the Sabac’s local election commission, since ten of his representatives resigned from the positions in that body, which, according to him, means the commission has no quorum to pass decisions.