Serbia's Law on the Election of Representatives (2000) stipulated that parliamentary mandates would be awarded to electoral lists (Article 80) that crossed the electoral threshold (Article 81), that mandates would be given to candidates appearing on the relevant lists (Article 83), and that the submitters of the lists were responsible for selecting their parliamentary delegations within ten days of the final results being published (Article 84). See Law on the Election of Representatives, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 35/2000, made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017.
ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ: Председници општина и градова, изабрани на локалним изборима 2008., Archived 2010-10-03 at the Wayback Machine; Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; 3 October 2010, accessed 14 July 2021.
The fact that Filipović won the election in the second round is confirmed by ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ: Председници општина и градова, изабрани на локалним изборима, 2004., Archived 2010-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 3 October 2010, accessed 12 July 2021; Pop Jovanov's identity as the candidate he defeated in the second round is confirmed in Lokalni Izbori u Srbiji 2004, Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Free Elections and Democracy, 27 September 2007, accessed 14 July 2021.
