Stolen, rigged, irregular, suspicious - that's how the media, analysts, observers, politicians and citizens on the other side of the government called the extraordinary parliamentary, provincial, local and Belgrade elections that were held on December 17 last year. A large number of detected phantom voters, the rotation of voters from one place to another, voters imported from Republika Srpska to improve the result of the Serbian Progressive Party in Belgrade, the absolute supremacy of the ruling parties in the media resulted in a sharp By resolution of the European Parliament on the Serbian elections and By report international observer mission OSCE/ODIHR.
The opposition parties have learned an important lesson from the past elections, so those who are participating in the local elections that will be held tomorrow, Sunday, June 2, claim that they have secured observers at all polling stations.
Especially in Belgrade, where five and a half months ago, the largest number of fraudulent actions involving state and local institutions and "election tourists" were found, so everything is being done to prevent this from happening again in the repeated extraordinary elections in Belgrade.
GIK: 1581 domestic and 156 foreign observers
The President of the City Election Commission (GIK) Zoran Lukić announced that 2 local observers and 1581 foreign observers signed up to monitor the work of the City Election Commission and election committees in the elections for councilors of the Belgrade Assembly on the election day itself, June 156, Beoinfo reported.
In the preparatory phase of the election activities, the GIK's cooperation with domestic and foreign observers went "without objections, it was fast and efficient to mutual satisfaction2", said Lukić and added that everything went in the best possible order.
Representatives of domestic observers were registered: CRTA, CESID, Citizens on guard, JUKOM and Kreni-promeni, and from foreign OSCE/ODIHR, IFES, EU Delegation in Serbia, IREX, embassies of the United States of America, Holland, Slovakia and Great Britain.
The representatives of polling board observers are obliged to act according to the rules on maintaining order at the polling station and they are allowed to observe every election action unhindered, and possible observations of the observers can be entered in the record of the polling board observers.
ODIHR: The findings will be presented on Monday
It is not usual for OSCE/ODIHR observer missions to be sent to monitor local elections, but Serbia has gained a reputation as a country where elections are neither fair nor free.
In order not to leave much room for speculation about the regularity of the election process, the international observers at the local elections in Serbia from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will immediately present their findings at a press conference on Monday after the elections, it was announced. that mission.
Ambassador Lamberto Zanier, head of the ODIHR Election Observation Mission, will address the media at the Metropol Hotel in Belgrade at 15 p.m. The press conference will also be able to be followed via the Zoom platform.
As announced, the ODIHR Election Observation Mission has a total of 126 observers, consisting of 16 experts engaged by ODIHR, 18 long-term engaged observers and 92 short-term engaged observers throughout Serbia.
The ODIHR mission to observe the local elections in Serbia was formed on April 30, at the invitation of the authorities in Serbia, and is led by Ambassador Lamberto Zanier.
Contact phone number for checking the voter list
The Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government has announced that it will open contact numbers for citizens through which they will allegedly be able to obtain information about entries in extracts from the Unified Voters' List.
On the day of the election, June 2, citizens can get information on the phone numbers 011/2641-497, 011/3643-990, 011/3643-991 and 011/2685-344 between 7.00:20.00 a.m. and XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.
