Member of the CEC, Nenad Rikalo said that at yesterday’s meeting of that body were set deadlines for snap local elections for mayor of Gracanica on 18 January.
Rikalo told Beta news agency that the candidates for mayor will be able to apply until 23 December.
The period for voting by mail for displaced persons in central Serbia runs from 13 December to 5 January next year, and the deadline for voting by mail is from the 12th to the 16th of January, added Rikalo.
According to him, the campaign will last only five days, i.e. from 12 to 16 January.
On the question of how it will be organized delivery of votes of displaced persons and whether the OSCE will participate in the electoral process, Rikalo replied that this had not been discussed at today’s meeting of the CEC, but that the practice of previous elections shows that the OSCE is organizing a vote of displaced persons outside Kosovo.
Rikalo said that Gracanica municipality has more than 20,000 voters on the electoral roll.
Extraordinary local elections were announced in Gracanica after the resignation of former mayor Branimir Stojanovic and his appointment to the post of deputy prime minister of Kosovo.
