RIK Approves Authentic Right and People's Choice Lists

The Republic Election Commission approved two new electoral lists on Friday evening, September 18, 2026, for the early parliamentary election scheduled for October 25: the Authentic Right list, led by Milos Jovanovic, and the People’s Choice list. The session came a day after the commission’s 23rd session, at which two national minority lists were approved on Thursday, September 17.

Authentic Right fields 250 candidates

The Authentic Right list was submitted by the New Democratic Party of Serbia and the Monarchists. The commission found that the list came with 10,436 legally valid voter signatures attached, well above the 10,000 the law requires. It carries 250 candidates for parliament, the maximum number of seats it could possibly win.

People’s Choice, a list that plans to withdraw

RIK also approved the People’s Choice list, submitted by the Narodna Srbija coalition, made up of the Serbian People’s Movement, the New Face of Serbia, and the Ecological Uprising. Approval followed an earlier finding by the commission that the list was 67 valid signatures short, which we reported on earlier this month. The submitter then delivered 188 new supporting signatures, closing the gap, and the list now carries 100 candidates for parliament.

The Narodna Srbija coalition, however, had already announced before its list was approved that it would not take part in the election, in order to leave room for the student list to pick up a larger share of the vote. The withdrawal is expected no later than Monday, September 21.

Borislav Novakovic, deputy president of the Serbian People’s Movement, explained ahead of the approval why the coalition sought clearance for a list it intends to pull:

“That’s why we will make up the missing sixty or so signatures, not so that we can take part in the election, but so that we can withdraw the list with full credibility and clearly show that we do not want to take part in the electoral process.”

Novakovic’s comment confirms that approval is a formal step the coalition needs to make the withdrawal legally clean, not a condition for actually running.

Nine lists approved so far

With the two lists cleared on September 18, RIK has now approved nine electoral lists in total. At the session a day earlier, on September 17, chaired by commission president Vladimir Dimitrijevic, the commission approved the Usame Zukorlic (SPP) Movement for Unification list, with 6,182 valid signatures and 121 candidates, running as a Bosniak national minority list, and the Russian Party, Serbia in BRICS, Slobodan Nikolic list, with 5,101 valid signatures and 25 candidates, running as a Russian national minority list.

The pro-European coalition made up of the Party of Freedom and Justice, Serbia Center, and the Solidarity movement has announced it will submit its list to RIK over the weekend, most likely on Sunday, September 21. The deadline for submitting lists for the October 25 election is October 4.