There's more chance of early elections in Serbia being held after the summer than during the spring, Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID) Executive Director Bojan Klacar told Prva TV. Explaining the reasons for this, Klacar said there was no visible progress on Kosovo that could speed up the dynamics around elections, while the opposition "has taken a firm stance to boycott elections, which is not a good solution for the (ruling) Serbian Progressive Party (SNS)." He added some kind of dialogue between the government and the opposition should be established before the elections.

Executive Director of the Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID) Bojan Klacar said it would not be a surprise if extraordinary parliamentary elections in Serbia take place later this year, BETA news agency reported. He also opined that extraordinary parliamentary elections could be postponed in order to find a way and have extraordinary local elections also organized. “It seems hardly sustainable to have extraordinary parliamentary elections this year, and the local elections next year.

All Serbian media quoted a survey conducted by the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies in cooperation with CeSID.

According to the survey, 53 percent of citizens are for Kosovo to remain in Serbia at all costs.

Serbian citizens would hardly change their red lines in relation to Kosovo, that suggest Kosovo should remain part of Serbia, Belgrade-based daily Danas writes. Following Pristina’s decision to impose 100 percent tariffs on goods from central Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, tensions in the Serbian public have been running high for days and according to some interpretations their aim is to inflame the situation, bring it to almost a pre-war condition, in which citizens in Serbia and Kosovo would easier accept solution of the two political elites, something they would not do should the circu

CeSID Executive Director, Bojan Klacar said the latest researches indicate that only 8 percent of Serbian citizens have no stance on the resolution of Kosovo and Metohija issue, Tanjug news agency reported. Presenting the results of the survey, at 6^th Belgrade NATO Week, Klacar said when asked about their stances on delineation in a referendum, 36 percent of respondents said they would vote for, 34 percent would vote against, while 22 percent would not turn out. “Fact that only 8 percent (out of 1.010 respondents) has no stance, indicated this topic is very important for the citiz