2016 Serbian Parliamentary Election Puns

After being delayed for a full three and a half months, it is finally time for the Serbian parliamentary elections to take place.

As gradual reopening has taken place following the pandemic being out of the picture, voters are crowded in polling stations, with voter turnout expected to surge over 60% due to the fact that they were all stuck at home for extended periods of time and can finally get some fresh air.

While some parties, including the new coalition, the Alliance for Serbia (SzS) which was only founded last year, have decided to boycott the election, due to them deeming the election irregular (The European Commission even criticized election conditions and expressed a serious concern about press freedom) and biased in favor of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) who have somehow won the popular vote in every district in 2016. It is also noted that there have been protests for three years running, which have continued after a brief pause during the state of emergency.

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Anyways, there are two major players to lookout for this time.

>The SNS led coalition. They have ruled Serbia for 8 years straight, and are consistently polling much higher than anyone else, albeit the fact that the last poll is 6 months away. However, they're coming under some heavy fire for slowly taking the nation to authoritarianism, an absolutely horrendous COVID-19 response and their inability to prevent Croatia's spiral to nationalism, amongst other issues in this chaotic timeline.

>The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS). Last playing the main role in 2001 when Slobodan Milosevic did some things that we

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Today, the election for both bodies of Serbian government is underway. Many dark-horse candidates have been lobbying for years within criminal circles for help in taking parts of the electorate. The dominant "Serbia is Winning" coalition is in danger of a large-scale collapse, or at the very minimum risk having to form a coalition with the Serbian Radical Party. The Serbian Socialist Party and its coalition is a dark horse in the race. Due to the Italian Revolution, many socialists and leftists are further galvanized and have been campaigning ravenously.

Serbian democracy is exceedingly flawed and open to corrupt processes, so it remains to be seen whether or not there has been any meddling in the parliamentary elections.

Dominant presidential candidates are as follows:

Other candidates are likely not to garner many votes.

All 250 seats of the National Assembly are up for grabs.

The current layout of the Serbian National Assembly is as follows:

Today's election could jeopardize the grip that the SW Coalition has held over the country for some years. The Serbian Progressive Party, the dominant party leading the coalition, may in fact have to negotiate with the Radicals if they make gains today.

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The 2016 United States Federal Election was held on November 9th to determine the makeup of all 470 seats of the United States Parliment. Incumbent Prime Minister Barack Obama of the Liberal Party announced he would not seek a third term, leading to former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hillary Rodham Clinton to succeed him as the leader of the Liberal Party. Meanwhile, Paul Ryan of the Conservative Party sought to win a majority after their major gains in the 2012 Federal Election. Finally, T.V. Personality and former Reform Party leader, Donald Trump, sought to bring Right-Wing Populism back to the national stage under the banner of the newly formed Constitution Party.

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Participating parties:

1. Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija-Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (LSDP): centre-left, pro-eu, most older members are ex-communists

2. Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Tėvynės sąjunga – Lietuvos krikščionys demokratai, TS-LKD): cente-right, pro-eu, merger of liberal conservative and chrishtian democtratic parties

3. Lithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals) (Lietuvos Laisvės Sąjunga (Liberalai), LLS): centre-right, market liberal,pro-eu, anti-establishment populist

4. Coalition "Against corruption and poverty": right wing, anti-establishment populist, anti-eu, nationalist

5. Order and Justice (Partija tvarka ir teisingumas, PTT): right wing, nationalist, soft-euroscepticism, anti-establishment populist

6. Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (Lietuvos valstiečių ir žaliųjų sąjunga, LVŽS): pro-farmers, green conservatism, pro-rural areas

7. Liberal Movement (Lietuvos Respublikos Liberalų sąjūdis LRLS): centre-right, pro-eu, social progressive

8. Labour Party (Darbo Partija, DP): big tent, anti-establisment populist, soft-euroscepticism

9. The Way of Courage (Drąsos Kelias):anti-establisment populist, pro-vigilantism

10. Lithuanian People's Party (Lietuvos liaudies partija, LLP): centre-left, pro-Russia

11. Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania-Union of Christian Families (Lietuvos lenkų rinkimų akcija-LLRA, Polish: Akcja Wyborcza Polaków na Litwie-AWPL): centre-right, polish nationalism, russian nationalism, soft-euroscepticism

12. Lithuanian Green Party ( Lietuvos Žaliųjų Partija, LŽP): greens

13. "Lithuanian List": populist

14. Anti-coruption coalition of Lithuanian Centre Party and Lithuanian Pensioners' Party: centre, anti-establishment populist, soft-euroscepticism

In case you haven't noticed by all the threads that have been posted here about this the last 24 hours, our general elections take place today. There's been more foreign media attention around this one than our elections usually get, which I think is justified. This cycle has been marred by controversies and drama, which culminated in a half-year premature re-election where giants have fallen and newcomers have gained significant traction. Hopefully this post will be helpful to anyone who is interested in understanding our volatile political climate.

Some background

Back in 2013, an unprecedented left wing government coalition of the Social Democrats and the Left Greens that had reigned from 2009 fell to the more traditional right wing coalition of the Independents and the Progressive Party. The priorities of the left wing government were often criticized during the EU application process and the Icesave controversy especially, and in the end they couldn't weather the storm that was post-crash Iceland.

The new right wing coalition took the reins and led the government for three years with some mixed results. Unemployment is negligible, inflation has been kept within acceptable limits, and tourism has continued to grow explosively, to name some positives, but the negatives have also weighed heavily on the population. To name a few, our healthcare system is dangerously underfunded and has been since the crash, and the real estate market in the capital area has risen in value to the point where it can be called an affordable housing crisis.

Parties

This election cycle is unique in that it has seven parties consistently polling above the 5% minimum threshold, whereas it has practically always been either five or six. With such a split vote, forming a majority coalition can prove difficult, which opinion polls definitely do suggest.

• VG (Vinstri hreyfing Grænt framboð, e. Left-Green movement)

Europhobe left wing party with a historic focus on environmentalism. Before they formed their first government in 2013, they had since their founding in 1999 been a prominent voice in the government opposition. Their current leader, Katrín Jakobsdóttir,