Fourteen months have passed since the two-year-old girl Danka Ilić disappeared in the vicinity of Zaječar. The case shook Serbia, the girl's body was not found, and the prosecutor's office is now starting to reconstruct the event
Due to vote buying, pressure and intimidation in the elections in Zaječar and Kosjerić, as well as false reporting by certain media, CRTA will file criminal charges, the program director of this observation mission, Raša Nedeljkov, told Vreme.
Just like on Friday in Kosjerić, today in Zaječar all objections of the opposition were rejected. Reason: they do not contain all the elements prescribed by law
Uglješa Đuričković from the opposition list "Change in which we believe" says that the opposition had access to the voter list and discovered "the ways in which the local elections in Zaječar were stolen". He said that the opposition will not agree to the repetition of local elections at certain polling stations, but demands their annulment and calling for new ones - under fair and honest conditions.
Even if we call what happened in Zaječar and Kosjerić on Sunday the victory of the regime and the defeat of the opposition, that is, the student-citizen movement, it would be necessary to add attributes to those terms, for the sake of truth and authenticity. First of all, it is a question of the catastrophic victory of the SNS, which means that the "people from Vučić" are slowly but surely going into the dustbin of history and that they are running a lap of honor in which there is no honor, nor will there be any. What are the other messages of these elections? And what can we learn from them
Buying votes, pressures, propaganda machinery - all that SNS was not enough for a convincing victory in Zaječar and Kosjerić. Do the local elections herald the end of the political power that Vučić has been building for years?
Despite the initial ban and the presence of strong police forces, the opposition in Zaječar managed to enter the local self-government building where voting materials are kept
In front of the Town Hall in Zaječar, representatives of the opposition parties, their legal representatives and representatives of students in the blockade addressed the citizens and public of Serbia with the message that the elections in Zaječar were stolen.
Two days after the election, Uglješa Đuričković, the opposition candidate for mayor of Zaječar, claims for "Vreme" that two ballots were found at one polling station, which to him smells like theft.
The example of the elections in Zaječar and Kosjerić shows that the truth is not given, but assumed. Truth is a task that a citizen fulfills. She always wins
Milutin Kostić, a psychiatrist from Belgrade and a member of the Green-Left Front, was an election observer in a village near Zaječar. Here's what he noticed there
It turns out that the opposition did not win in either of these two places. But before we fall into the abyss of defeatism, it should be noted that everything has gone as well as it can at this point. And that from now on, it can only get better
Celebration in the center of Zaječar of the electoral victory of the opposition
Regular local elections were held in Zaječar and Kosjerić. Incidental situations were recorded in several locations outside the polling station. Polling stations, which opened at seven, were closed at 20 p.m. The opposition in both cities declared victory, as did the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, in his new address to the public
Representatives of the opposition in Zaječar declared victory
Election day in Kosjerić and Zaječar would otherwise be wonderful if it weren't for the "blockaders-armchairs" who buy votes and beat them in turn, and also wear Nazi insignia. At least that's what the regime's tabloids report...
Limousines, shady guys, police, veterans, bikers... This week in Kosjerić and Zaječar smells of election stunts and trouble
On Sunday, June 8, the citizens of Zaječar will elect councilors from eight lists in the local elections, and the citizens of Kosjerić - three
The ruling party campaigned in Zaječar and Kosjerić as in the center of Belgrade - it made small settlements out of tents, roasted piglets and kids, kneaded bread, poured brandy and juices and distributed daily allowances. Vučić turned the campaign into a production activity where there is an exact calculation of how much a vote "costs", and since he is able to determine the way in which public money will be spent, literally nothing is expensive for him. This is opposed by citizens who have decided not to be afraid, to accept the social risk, some at the cost of losing their jobs. Can the change that is talked about and believed in be seen in these two small sample fields?
The students in the blockade called on the citizens to participate in the humanitarian Zaječar bazaar, but also to vote in the elections in this city.
As part of the campaign before the local elections, the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić visited Zaječar and stated that the citizens are "fed up with stopping Serbia" and that they will call for elections when preparations for the Expo are completed
It's time to stand with the students, said Zaječar professor Darko Micić at the gathering "Freedom moves from the east" that will last until midnight in Zaječar
The protest in Zaječar is planned to last until eight minutes after midnight
Two weeks before the local elections in Zaječar, an all-day student protest will be held in that city. And the government is aware of the importance of the upcoming elections, because it has been sending heavyweights from the very top of the Serbian Progressive Party to the field for some time
Zaječar and Kosjerić will be the first places where the government and the opposition will measure their strength after several months of protests in Serbia. In Kosjerić, the opposition is united, while in Zaječar, it participates in two columns in the elections, and as the progressives prepare for the upcoming elections
In less than two months, the first local elections will be held in the midst of student and civil protests that have spread throughout Serbia. Will the opposition boycott them or come out against them anyway?
The President of the Assembly of Serbia today announced the elections for councilors of the Zaječar City Assembly and the Kosjerić Municipal Assembly for June 8 this year.
