The Republic Electoral Commission held an extraordinary press conference on 16 January 2022 at 11 pm to announce the provisional results of the republic referendum.

The Director of the Republic Statistical Office Dr Miladin Kovacevic said that 555,338 voters had voted at the 34.68% of the polling stations processed, which is 30.63% of the total number of voters who had voted at the processed polling stations. 5,758 ballots were invalid, which is 1.04%

Kovacevic went on to say that 343,436 of the voters have voted YES which is 61.84%, while 206,031 had voted NO – 37.10%.