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Serbia Election - 16 March 2014

2014 General Election
Party	Seats Won	Votes
Aleksandar Vucic - A Future We Believe In	158	1,736,920	48.35%
Ivica Dacic Coaltion	44	484,607	13.49%
With the Democratic Party for a Democratic Serbia	19	216,634	6.03%
Boris Tadic Coaltion	18	204,767	5.70%
Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians	6	75,294	2.10%
Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak	3	35,157	0.98%
Party for Democratic Action	2	24,301	0.68%

Elections to the National Assembly (Narodna skupština) were not due until 2016. On 29 January 2014 President Tomislav Nikolic dissolved parliament and called for early elections, in an effort to garner more popular support for economic and social reforms. He scheduled a parliamentary election for 16 March 2014, at the request of Serbia's coalition government. The ruling Serbian Progressive Party was behind the move, as it hoped to increase its support in order to accelerate the reform plan to clear the way for European Union membership. The early elections were called for by First Deputy Prime Minister VUCIC, with opinion polling showing the support for the SNS to be at an all-time high, coupled with tensions in the ruling coalition.

Serbian citizens were able vote at 8,262 polling stations administered by the Republican Electoral Commission (RIK). Voting for Serbian citizens in Kosovo was overseen and administered by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). There is a 5 percent threshold to enter parliament, with the exception of lists representing ethnic minorities. Parties representing ethnic minorities must cross a threshold of 0.4 percent to gain representation.

Aleksandar Vucic - A Future We Believe In included Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), Social Democratic Party of Serbia, New Serbia (NS), Serbian Renewal Movement, and Movement of Socialists (PS). The Ivica Dacic Coaltion members were Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS), and United Serbia (US). The Boris Tadic Coaltion members were New Democratic Party – The Greens (NDS-Z), League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV) – Nenad Canak, Together for Serbia (ZZS), Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians (VMDK), Together for Vojvodina and Democratic Left of Roma.

Voters in Serbia voted in an early parliamentary election 16 March 2014. The ruling Serbian Progressive Party was expected to win the vote for a new 250-seat parliament. Serbian Progressive Party leader Aleksandar Vucic, a former nationalist ally of the late strongman Slobodan Milosevic, was expected to become the next prime minister. Vucic had promised painful reforms to help Serbia's economy, which had been ravaged by wars and international sanctions. The outgoing government led by Socialist Prime Minister Ivica Dacic was trailing in the polls. The election came as Serbia was seeking entry into the European Union.

The coalition called "Future We Believe In - Aleksandar Vucic" led by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), won 158 of the 250 seats at stake, thereby becoming the first electoral coalition in Serbia to secure an absolute majority in parliament. "Ivica Dacic - SPS-PUPS-US" coalition led by outgoing Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, came in a distant second, taking 44 seats. The Democratic Party - an opposition party led by former Belgrade Mayor Dragan Djilas - and the New Democratic Party - Greens, led by former President Boris Tadic, followed with 19 and 18 seats respectively.

European reformer Aleksandar Vucic was elected Serbia's new prime minister on 28 April 2014. One hundred ninety-eight members of parliament voted in favor of Vucic and his new Cabinet Sunday, while 23 voted no. Seven abstained. Vucic told lawmakers they will sleep and eat inside the parliament building until they pass his economic reform package. He said the old way of doing things in Serbia has driven away investors and has failed to create jobs and fight corruption. The new economic package included spending cuts and tax increase. The opposition already is dismissing it as populism and empty promises. Vucic was Serbia's feared information minister behind draconian legislation designed to muzzle criticism of the government during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.

Since coming to power in 2014, Prime Minister Vucic implemented a series of economic reforms which pulled the country out of recession. The elections were constitutionally due in 2018 but in March 2016 the Prime Minister called snap elections, stating that Serbia "needs four more years of stability so that it is ready to join the European Union". On 4 March, President Tomislav Nikolic (independent) dissolved parliament in view of early elections. During the election campaign, the Prime Minister pledged to work for Serbia's accession to the European Union, while maintaining close ties with the Russian Federation.