PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION BALLOTS PRINTING BEGINS

After the Republic Electoral Commission adopted the Decision on the publication of the total number of voters in the Republic of Serbia and the Decision on the number of ballots to be printed for the voting in the parliamentary elections called for 25 October 2026, the Official Gazette Public Enterprise printing house began printing the ballots for the elections for National Assembly MPs.

The printing of the ballots began in the presence of the Chairperson of the Republic Electoral Commission, Vladimir Dimitrijevic, Commission members, representatives of the observers authorized to monitor the work of the bodies in charge of conducting the elections and representatives of the media.

The Chairperson of the Republic Electoral Commission Vladimir Dimitrijevic said that 6,450,523 ballots will be printed which is the sum total of voters in the Republic of Serbia as noted on 9 October 2026.

The vote will be taken in 8,392 polling stations, 93 of them abroad in 37 countries, and in Serbia, 29 of the polling stations will be in facilities for the enforcement of criminal sanctions, while for the voters from the territory of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija, 60 polling stations were set up in Vranje, Kursumlija, Raska and Tutrin.

The Chairperson of the Republic Electoral Commission said that the ballot will contain 18 electoral lists, following the order on the Collective Electoral List adopted by the Commission on the 8 October, the ballots will be purple, printed on a paper bearing a protective watermark. The control card to test the integrity of the ballot box will be white.

The ballots will be printed in 29 language variants, depending on the languages and scripts in official use in a given municipality/city in the Republic of Serbia, Dimitrijevic added.

The Chairperson of the Republic Electoral Commission reminded the attending that representatives of the submitters of the electoral lists, as well as representatives of domestic and foreign observers, have the rights to follow the printing, counting and packing of the ballots, as well as their delivery to electoral commissions and polling boards.

“The printing and packing are followed by the delivery of electoral material, which the coordinators of the Republic Electoral Commission will distribute to local electoral commissions four days before the vote at the latest. Local commissions then deliver the material to the polling boards, by 23 October at the latest”, said Vladimir Dimitrijevic adding that it is vital for each polling board to receive the valid and complete material in a timely manner so that the polling boards can be ready for the vote on 25 October.