Yesterday they were students from non-formal education STAV groups blocked the Rector's office of the University of Novi Sad, where the election for the student parliament was announced for today from eight o'clock Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad because, as stated by STAV, they are not in accordance with Article 5 of the Rulebook on Conducting Elections, which mandates that elections must be held in the faculty building. The blockade lasted until 16 pm.
The President of the Election Commission, Professor Svetozar Boškov, said earlier that the elections for the Student Parliament of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad will not take place today, writes portal 021.
"I was informed last night that there will be no elections today, I don't have any information when they could be held," said Boškov.
Student and activist of the informal STAV, Lazar Dinić, told "Vreme" that they did not receive an official document that there would be no elections today, but that they heard that information from the media. That is why, according to Dinić, they decided to stay at the Rectorate until 16:XNUMX p.m., when the election day officially ends.
"If we had the document, we would have come out earlier," emphasizes our interlocutor.
He adds that they have not been able to get in touch with anyone from the parliament, election commission or student representatives all day.
"We had no interaction with them, except in the hall of the faculty when we met one 'so-called.' representative and when we asked her when the elections will be. She said that she did not want to give that information and that we should ask ourselves when and where the elections are held. Then, we asked if this means that they will secretly organize elections where they will vote for themselves and declare themselves representatives, she said yes. That was the only interaction we had, and after that she locked herself in the office," Dinić points out.
Why students are blocking the Rectorate and elections
Our interlocutor explains that the problem with the presentation of the list, that is, the candidacy of the list, is that in October last year, Article 19 of the Rulebook on conducting elections at the faculty was added.
"This means that any list that wants to run as an informal group must submit the signatures of 10 percent of the total number of students, which is prescribed by the Law on Student Organizations." However, they have now added that all 10 percent of the signatures must be certified by the Election Commission. It is a procedure that lasts, and the Commission to which we submit everything works for two to three hours a day only five days before the deadline," says Dinić.
He adds that there is another option if the student organization is registered in APR. However, then the organization must go through the register of student organizations whose committee includes the same people who are also in the election committee.
"So, the organization must pass the control of the president of the parliament, members of the election commission, where we come to the problem that Ivana Macak, who is the president of the parliament, is in the same committee, and she slapped her colleague Mila Pajić, for example. And now she needs to decide whether we can report the organization or not," emphasizes Dinić.
He concludes that the demands since the beginning of the election blockade, the first of which was about two months ago, are the same.
"The first is the amendment of Article 19 of the Rulebook, which refers to the verification of signatures," says Lazar Dinić, "and the second is the re-announcement of the election process with candidacies."
