RIK approves Suzana Kujundzic Ostojic's Bunjevci list
An 18-candidate list for the Bunjevci National Council was approved a day after filing, at the 53rd session of the Republic Electoral Commission. Voting is on November 8.
The Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) on October 12 approved the electoral list Dr Suzana Kujundzic Ostojic - Nek se znade, da Bunjevac zivi! for the election of members of the National Council of the Bunjevci national minority. The decision was made at the 53rd session. The list was filed with the commission a day earlier, on October 11, by the Subotica-based association Bunjevci Educational Research Center “Ambrozije Sarcevic”. Direct elections for national minority councils are set for November 8, 2026.
What did the commission establish about the list?
The session was chaired by RIK Deputy Chair Marko Jankovic, who said the list has 18 candidates. Suzana Kujundzic Ostojic submitted it on behalf of the sponsor, as the association’s representative. RIK member Zlata Jusufovic said the list meets the requirements of Article 72, paragraphs 1 and 5 of the Law on National Councils of National Minorities, on the number of candidates and the representation of the less represented gender, and that all the documentation required by law was attached.
Jusufovic also gave figures on the electorate. Under the decision of the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue on the provisional closing of the special voter register, dated September 16, 6,553 voters are registered in the special register of the Bunjevci national minority. Support for an electoral list requires at least 66 certified voter statements. How many statements the list submitted is not stated in the available publications.
What else was adopted at the session?
Later in the session, RIK members adopted the Decision on Forms for Conducting Electoral Actions and the Decision on Forms for Applications to Monitor and Observe the Work of Electoral Bodies. The forms are printed bilingually, in Serbian in the Cyrillic script and in the language and script of the minority whose council is being elected. Observer forms will be produced for the councils of 14 minorities, including Albanian, Bosniak, Hungarian, Rusyn and Bunjevci, and will be available to list sponsors on the RIK website.
Jankovic said the forms would also be available to the international public:
“The forms under this decision will be translated into English and made available to interested international and foreign organizations and associations and to representatives of foreign states via the RIK website.”
We previously reported on the approval of the Egyptian and Rusyn lists for minority council elections.
