Belgrade: The Serb Radical Party (SRS) could gain the most votes, some 1.48 million, on May 11 elections – said CeSID (Center for Free Elections and Democracy) opinion poll released yesterday.

According to a CeSID opinion poll, the Democratic Party (DS) could get around 1.37mn, and the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS)-New Serbia (NS) coalition could get about 510,000 votes. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) could receive some 330,000 votes, the Socialist Party-PUPS-JS coalition 290,000, and the minority parties 150,000 votes. The others could receive 110,000 votes altogether.

Conducted between April 14 and 20, on a sample of 2732 voters, the CeSID opinion poll articulated that in Serbia without Kosovo, between 4.3 and 4.7 million citizens are expected to vote.

The Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID) researcher Dorde Vukovic said that there were around 12 to 13 percent of permanent abstainers, some 800,000 people altogether. That figure is close to that in other countries in the region and in developed democracies.

Vukovic added that all the figures referred to a realistic voting base of 5.5 million citizens out of 6.7 million registered voters altogether.

The CeSID researcher stated that figures in the media according to which the SRS would receive 88 seats, the DS 85 seats, the DSS-NS 30 seats, the LDP 20 seats, the SPS 17, and the minorities 10, were not the results of CeSID opinion polls, but rather the media’s own interpretation.