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Serbian parliamentary election, 2008

Serbian parliamentary election, 2008
Serbia
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Turnout 61.33%
Party Leader % Seats ±
DS coalition Boris Tadić 38.42 102 +15
SRS Tomislav Nikolić 29.46 78 -3
DSSNS Vojislav Koštunica 11.62 30 -13
SPSPUPSJS Ivica Dačić 7.58 20 +2
LDP Čedomir Jovanović 5.24 13 +2
Hungarian Coalition István Pásztor 1.81 4 +1
List for Sandžak Sulejman Ugljanin 0.92 2 0
KSLP Riza Halimi 0.41 1 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Results by district
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Vojislav Koštunica
DSS
Mirko Cvetković
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 11 May 2008 to elect members of the National Assembly. The election was held barely a year after the previous parliamentary election. There were 6,749,886 eligible electors who were able to vote in 8,682 voting places, as well as 157 special voting stations for refugees from Kosovo.

The Government of Serbia had passed through weeks of severe crisis after the unilateral declaration of independence of its southern province of Kosovo on 17 February 2008. Its stability, however, was also tested and questioned before, being comprised by two very different political currents. Kosovo's independence was gradually recognized by the United States and numerous European Union countries, leading to strain in their relations with Serbia. Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) offered in late February to the Democratic Party (Serbia) (DS), which holds governmental majority, a restructuring of the governmental contract including an annex according to which Serbia can continue European exclusively with Kosovo as its integral part. The controversy was further heated up when Olli Rehn, the European Commissioner for enlargement of the European Union, offered to continue negotiations with Serbia. President Boris Tadić of the DS responded that European integrations of Serbia cannot be questioned by anyone or anything, and that since the province of Kosovo-Metohija is written into the constitution, meaning that the proposal would mean that the Constitution is being questioned.


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