2022 Serbian general election

General elections are expected to be held in Serbia in April 2022 to elect both the President and National Assembly. National Assembly elections had not been due until 2024, having last been held in April 2020, but are planned to be held alongside the presidential elections.[1]

2022 Serbian general election
Before 2 April 2022
Presidential election
 
Candidate TBD Miloš Jovanović Dejan Žujović
Party SNS DSS Independent
Incumbent President

Aleksandar Vučić
SNS
Parliamentary election
All 250 seats in the National Assembly
126 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Current seats
SNS coalition Aleksandar Vučić 188
SPS–JS–ZS–KP Ivica Dačić 32
SPAS Aleksandar Šapić 11
VMSZ István Pásztor 9
SPP–DPM Muamer Zukorlić 4
ADA Shaip Kamberi 3
SDA S Sulejman Ugljanin 3
Incumbent Prime Minister
Ana Brnabić
SNS

Electoral system

The President of Serbia is elected using the two-round system. If no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the first round, a second will be held. The 250 members of the National Assembly are elected by closed-list proportional representation from a single nationwide constituency. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method with an electoral threshold of 3% of all votes cast,[2] although the threshold is waived for ethnic minority parties.[3]

Presidential candidates

Incumbent President Aleksandar Vučić of Serbian Progressive Party said that he hopes he will not be the candidate of his party. The United Opposition of Serbia has a number of potential candidates, but none have yet announced they would run for President.[4]

Declared candidates

Government

Opposition

Unlikely Boycott

In August 2020, the catch-all opposition Alliance for Serbia was dissolved because they weren't satisfied with how the coalition was functioning at the time and shortly after that the United Opposition of Serbia was formed. None of the parties that belong to the coalition still haven't announced their candidate, but if the dialogue with the government doesn't start, they're going to boycott the election. The dialogue with the European Union is most likely going to start by April 2021.[10]

References
  1. "Vučić: Vanredni parlamentarni izbori najkasnije 3. aprila 2022" (in Serbian). N1. 20 October 2020.
  2. "Electoral threshold reduced to 3%". Serbian Monitor. 13 January 2020.
  3. "Electoral system of Serbia". IPU.
  4. "Vučić: Neću se kandidovati za predsednika 2022" (in Serbian). Direktno. 7 May 2020.
  5. "Blic: Miloš Jovanović kandidat za predsednika Srbije". Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 2021-01-07.
  6. "Žujović: Kandidujem se za predsednika, očekujem da Vučić prizna izborni poraz mirnim putem - Politika - Dnevni list Danas". www.danas.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  7. "Vladika Grigorije: Imam plan da okupim što više mladih ljudi". N1 (in Serbian). 2021-01-06. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
  8. Milenković, Piše: Mirjana R. "Marinika Tepić: Promenila sam samo jednu stranku više od Vučića". Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 2021-01-07.
  9. "Tadić: Ne bih voleo da ponovo trčim trku samo zato što niko drugi neće". N1 (in Serbian). 2020-05-22. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
  10. "Formirana Udružena opozicija Srbije, cilj smena bahatog režima" (in Serbian). Danas. 10 August 2020.
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