June 10, 2010

10. June 2010.

NATIONAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS WITHOUT IRREGULARITIES

At first direct elections for National Minority Councils, which were held on Sunday, June 6, 2010, there were no irregularities and there is no need to repeat them at any polling place, said Rozalija Torde, the Chairperson of the Central Electoral Commission, at the yesterday’s press-conference.

According to the official results, out of 29 members of the Albanian National Council, the Party for Democratic Action of Riza Halimi is going to have 24, while the Democratic Union of Albanians of Rahmi Zuljfiju is going to have 5.

The Bosniak National Council is going to have 35 members, out of which 17 are representatives of the Bonsiak cultural community that is led by mufti Muamer Zukorlic, whereas the Bosniak List is going to have 13 members, while the Bosniak Renewal is going to have 5 members.

The Hungarian Harmony is going to have absolute majority in the Hungarian National Council with 28 out of a total of 35 members, the Vojvodina’s Hungarians for Europe of Cengeri Atila, PhD, is going to have four members, while the Movement of Hungarian Hope of Laslo Balint, the Hungarian League of Murenji Tibor, PhD, and Let’s Shake Hands for the Hungarian Community – the Civic Movement of Zoltan Bunjik and Laslo Rac Sabo are going to have one member each.

Speaking of the Roma ethnic minority, 18 out of 35 representatives in the council are going to be from the Roma for European Serbia, while the Alliance of Roma Associations from the Jablanica-Pcinj district New Roma Movement is going to have six representatives. The Vojvodina’s Roma are going to have five representatives in the council, while a group of Roma Citizens of Serbia „Dragisa Todorovic“ is going to have three members, the Roma Party of Srdjan Sijan two and the Roma Voice for Europe one.

Svetozar Ciplic, Minister of Human and Minority Rights, said that the National Minority Councils would have a lot of responsibility, as well as a great deal of authority, because they were elected at legitimate and direct elections by members of their own communities.
Moreover, 54.5 per cent of a total of 436,334 persons registered in separate electoral rolls voted.

Electoral assemblies were held for the Croatian and Slovenian National Councils, whereas an electoral assembly for the Macedonian National Council will be held subsequently, as it had no quorum for its operation on Sunday.

Dimitrios Kypreos, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, said that the elections had been regular and that they had been held in the atmosphere of fairness. In his opinion, the most important thing is that they were held.