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Provincial elections were held for the unicameral Assembly of Serbia's northern Autonomous Province of Vojvodina on 11 May 2008, with a second-round to be held on 25 May 2008.[1] They were scheduled by the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia Oliver Dulić on 29 December 2007,[2] as required per the Constitutional Law adopted by the National Assembly of Serbia on 30 September 2006 that proclaimed the new Constitution.
Negotiations regarding the new electoral law in the current provincial assembly had failed. The Democratic Party (Serbia) wanted to add 12 guaranteed seats in the parliament for national minorities next to the existing 120, but the proposal didn't reach much overall support. The League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina wanted to replace the parallel voting (60 through popular vote and 60 through representative) with the more ordinary party-list proportional representation, but that would require changing the Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The present electoral law is favored by the Socialist Party of Serbia.
In the second-round, SRS, DSS-NS and SPS-PUPS decided to cooperate.[3]
- ^ "B92 - News - Politics - DS confident of second round victory in Vojvodina". Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
- ^ "B92 - News - Politics - Dulić calls local, provincial ballots for May". Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
- ^ "B92 - News - Politics - SRS, DSS forge alliance ahead of Vojvodina run-off". Archived from the original on 2008-05-20. Retrieved 2008-05-19.