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LDP-SDU-GSS-LSV coalition 14: Liberal Democratic Party, Social Democratic Union, Civic Alliance of Serbia (anti-war, anti-racist), and League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina: wooing young, urban voters, pledges to fight for the rights of all minorities.

Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians 3
List for Sandzak coalition 2
Union of Serbian Roma 1
Roma Party 1

G17 Plus 19 (clear pro-European position, lower interest rates, and ambitious plans for investing in the country's infrastructure.)

Democratic Party 65 (liberal pro-European)

Democratic Party of Serbia-New Serbia coalition 48 (Vojislav Kostunica's centre-right coalition advocating co-operation with the international community, but "not at any cost".)

Socialist Party of Serbia 16 (social justice, free education and social security for all, and Kosovo should be protected with arms, "should the need arise")

Serbian Radical Party 81 (nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj is on trial in The Hague on charges of inciting ethnic and religious hatred.)

(Only lists that win at least five percent of the total number of votes take part in the distribution of parliament seats. The threshold does not apply to six lists of political parties and coalitions of ethnic minorities, and they may win seats in the parliament with less than five percent of the votes.)

G17 Plus leader Mladjan Dinkic said late on Sunday that the Democratic Party, Democratic Party of Serbia-New Serbia coalition and G17 Plus had 132 seats, which was enough for them to set up a new Serbian government as a "democratic unity" coalition.

He added that the so-called pro-democracy bloc, together with the national minority parties, would have 153 seats. (That's adding the first 21 seats listed above.)

But Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) leader Cedomir Jovanovic said late on Sunday that "there can be no compromise with the policy symbolised by Vojislav Kostunica and there can be no cohabitation." (But without Kostunica the democrats have only 105 seats, 21 short of a majority. So he wants to be in opposition?)

Speaking at the LDP-GSS-SDU-LSV electoral headquarters, Jovanovic said that this was the victory of the truth and the coalition's clear stand that "we should go towards developments."

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[ 21 January 2007: Message edited by: Wilf Day ]

Vuk Draskovic's SPO (Serbian Renewal Movement) got 3.38 percent, and PUPS-SDP (Party of United Pensioners of Serbia-Social Democratic Party) got 3.08 percent of the vote. With the 3% threshhold that some people prefer, they would have been in parliament.

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Originally posted by Krago:
Wilf, where can I find your presentaion to the Citizen's Assembly?

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Since the last elections in December 2003, Kostunica's right-leaning Democratic Party of Serbia has declined in support from 17.7% to 16.7%, and from fifty-three to forty-seven seats. The more liberal Democratic Party led by president Boris Tadic has increased its support from 12.6% to 22.9%, and from thirty-seven to sixty-five seats.

Newly represented in the parliament, but probably not joining any coalition government, is the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), headed by former student leader Cedomir Jovanovic, which advocates a decidedly pro-European programme. Assuming that the new government is formed without the LDP, the far right will no longer offer the only strident voice of criticism in the parliamentary chambers.

On the issue of Kosovo: all parties except the LDP argued against accepting independence, but none of them will have much capacity to influence the eventual outcome.

All of the potential coalition partners in the new government except Tadic's Democratic Party have a reason to be afraid of new elections. . . Serbia's post-Milosevic prime minister Zoran Djindjic - murdered in March 2003 - offered some advice on responding to irresistible pressure: "If you have to swallow a frog, don't look at it a lot, but swallow it right away. If you have to swallow several frogs, swallow the biggest one first."

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Latest unofficial results:
As above, except:
LDP-SDU-GSS-LSV coalition 15, up from 14
Coalition of Albanians of the Presevo Valley: 1
Democratic Party 64, not 65
Democratic Party of Serbia-New Serbia coalition 47, not 48

No change in the balance of power, a small strengthening of the minorities (3 Hungarians, 2 Bozniaks, 2 Roma, 1 Albanian, and the LDP coalition claims strong minority support, as does the Democratic Party.)