Serbia announced plans to rerun elections in 30 polling stations, according to state media, just days after nationwide parliamentary and local elections sparked protests and international condemnation over alleged fraud. Serbia Against Violence said it would boycott the repeat vote.
"The Serbian Electoral Commission has decided that the parliamentary elections in Serbia will be repeated in 30 constituencies and will be held on December 30," it said in a statement.
"Re-elections in a certain number of sections cannot undo the fraud, nor correct the injustice that happened on December 17. That is why we will not participate in the re-election," Serbia's written statement against the violence said.
BGNES recalls that Vučić's right-wing Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) received around 46% of the votes in the parliamentary elections, while the leading opposition coalition secured only 23.5%.
The SNC appeared poised to tighten its grip on power after claiming to have won 127 of the 250 seats in parliament following Sunday's vote.
Opposition groups have expressed doubts about the validity of the vote after allegations that the government allowed thousands of unregistered voters from neighboring Bosnia to vote illegally in the capital, Belgrade.
Thousands of people demonstrated in front of the building of the election commission of Serbia in the center of Belgrade after the calls from the opposition camp.
Germany called the reported irregularities "unacceptable" for a country hoping to join the European Union. /BGNES
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