Silence day in Serbia: second round of the presidential elections will take place

The second round of the Serbian presidential elections will take place on May 20. As Focus information agency informs referring to the Serbian B92 the campaign for the election was ended at midnight on Thursday.

According to the source the election silence has commenced and will stay in effect until polls close at 20:00 CET on Sunday.

In this period, there is a ban on campaigning in the media, public rallies and publishing election results estimates.

The guidebook for organizing elections stipulates that symbols of candidates, political parties, coalitions, citizen groups and other promotional material cannot be posted at or within 50 meters of polling stations.

The first round of the elections took place on May 6 with parliamentarian elections and the elections of the local authorities. As no candidate secured the needed majority in the first round, two candidates will compete in the runoff – Democratic Party (DS)-led coalition candidate Boris Tadic and Serbian Progressive Party (SNS)-led coalition candidate Tomislav Nikolic.

First on the ballot will be Tadic, who won 25.31 percent or 989,454 votes in the first round, while Nikolic who took home 25.05 percent or 979,236 votes will be listed second.