Serbia after the Elections: Disappointment, Protests, and the Pursuit of Justice Published: 28 December 2023 Disappointment on election night, after the preliminary results based on vote samples, was enormous. The pro-European opposition, gathered around the coalition Srbija protiv nasilja (Serbia Against Violence), promised more than it could deliver in terms of defending the integrity of the vote, every vote, as opposition representatives would say, so that its result, which is fairly good under completely irregular electoral conditions, was negligible to the majority of its voters. Snežana Čongradin
Serbia Before the Elections: Change is On the Horizon Published: 13 December 2023 Commentary The dirty campaign and heightened pressure are indirect evidence that the Serbian Progressive Party’s (SNS) ratings are in decline, which makes a change of government in Belgrade seem possible. The coalition Serbia Against Violence has presented the Progressives with a serious competitor for the first time, so the brunt of the campaign was borne by Aleksandar Vučić himself - even though he is not up for election. Vera Didanović
Snap parliamentary election in Montenegro - again with no clear majority Published: 30 June 2023 Analisys The new movement “Europe Now!” (PES) has garnered the most votes in the snap parliamentary elections in Montenegro, with around 25.6 percent. Voter turnout was less than 57 percent. Difficult coalition negotiations are expected. Zoran Radulović
Montenegro Gets a New Government Published: 24 May 2022 Analisys On April 28, Montenegro got a new, minority Government. Prime Minister Dritan Abazović’s cabinet, however, is one of the largest in the country’s recent, three-decades long history of multi-party democracy. Zoran Radulović
Serbia after the Elections - Hardly Anything New Published: 5 April 2022 Electoral results in Serbia With everything that awaits us in the coming years, we must find a spark of optimism in the success achieved by the “Moramo” coalition and in the fact that self-organization and political action of individuals in Serbia is still possible. We can either join in and support that fight in the new cycle of the poisonous rule of Aleksandar Vučić, or keep being hostages to his politics. Miloš Ćirić
Political Crisis between Elections in Montenegro Published: 17 August 2018 An analysis of this year's presidential and local election in Montenegro and the resulting state of its public and political life. Stevo Muk
Kosovo Election: A Crisis "Déjà Vu" Published: 4 July 2017 The simplest explanation for the outcome of the vote held on 11 June would be to use the title of a popular feature film from former Yugoslavia: Već viđeno (“Déjà vu”). After this latest snap election, the situation is so complicated that there is already an opinion prevailing that no solution can be found and that these results can with certainty lead only to a new snap parliamentary election. Ismet Hajdari
Serbian Presidential Elections – Bravely Forward Towards the Past Published: 7 April 2017 In just under two months, Serbia will have a new President and a new Prime minister. What was the electoral process like and what will the switch at the helm mean for the state of democracy in Serbia? Nenad Šebek
Yet Another Historic Election in Montenegro – Changes Still Pending Published: 1 November 2016 Montenegro has exited its latest regular election cycle in a state of emergency of sorts, with many questions that will continue to divide its society. Daliborka Uljarevic
The Meaning of Vučić's Election Victory for Serbia and the EU Published: 6 May 2016 For the second time, Serbian Prime Minister Vučić has reconfirmed his mandate by means of new elections. The EU interprets the election victory as a pro-European signal. What does his Progressive Party really stand for? Andreas Poltermann, Paola Petrić
Thorns and Weeds Published: 4 May 2016 Vetëvendosje election victory in Prisinta, changed the balance of powers in Kosovo. The delegation headed by the mayor of Pristina Spend Ahmeti has recently visited Berlin. Natalija Miletić