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Armenia

Mon 14 May 2012 Latest elections were held on 6 May 2012, in these parliamentary elections the governing parties remained strong, while the opposition cried foul.
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Serbia

Fri 11 May 2012 On 7 May 2012 parliamentary elections and the first round for the presidential elections took place in Serbia. The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) won with 24.04 percent of the votes resulting in 73 seats in parliament and the Democratic Party (DS) that until these elections formed the biggest party in the governing coalition came second with 22.3 % of the votes. By almost doubling their seats with 14.7 % of the votes the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) of Ivica Dačić has obtained an important position in forming government with either DS or SNS. What coalition this will be, will most likely depend on the outcome of the second round of the Presidential elections on 20 May 2012. The results of the first round of the presidential elections showed that DS presidential candidate Boris Tadić won 25.37% of the votes and SNS candidate Tomislav Nikolić won 25.02%. Ivica Dačić (SPS) came in third with an estimated 15,30% of the votes.

On 26 May 2011 one of the world’s most wanted war crimes suspects Ratko Mladic, indicted by the ICTY on charges of genocide and other war crimes committed during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), was arrested in Serbia. Serbia had been under international pressure to arrest Mladic. His arrest was one of the conditions for the country’s EU candidate status which they acquired on 28 February 2012. Read full update