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.
We don't let them drive us crazy in Serbian, Russian or any third language. stated CRTA regarding the Russian FSB report disputing the use of the sound cannon
CRTA filed a criminal complaint against the President of Serbia, among other things, for causing panic and disorder
Why did Vučić decide to be a bigger Trump than Trump and to further humiliate those who should take care of law enforcement in Serbia
The Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA) said that after 28 hours, police left their office and took away more than 8.500 pages of copies of project documents.
And after almost three months, the student protests are not only not abating, but gaining more and more support. About 80 percent of Serbian citizens support most of the students' demands, and a third of the population states that they participated in the current protests
They are known as the electorate that has the hardest time changing their attitude, and as a rule they vote for the government. Have the students now succeeded in something that no one else has - to initiate the oldest and be their kind of guides for political thinking
The CRTA public opinion survey shows that a large number of citizens trust students the most to fight for justice. Support for the protests began to spill over to the electorate of the parties in power
"Election day can be seen as the second, less bad half that was played in a dirty way", said Nedeljkov at the press conference.
The preliminary report states that these elections are an extension of the electoral process from December 2023 and were entered into without implementing the priority recommendation of the ODIHR on the necessity of an independent revision of the voter list.
Elections will be held in Niš, Novi Sad, Subotica, Zrenjanin, Kikinda, Vršac, Pančevo, Sombor, Sremska Mitrovica, Valjevo, Požarevac, Jagodina, Užice and Čačak, and the citizens of Belgrade will go to the polling stations twice in June.
On the occasion of the election manipulations that the observation mission of the Border observed in the elections in December last year, the exhibition "Erasing the Appearance" was organized at the initiative of the director of CZDK, Ana Miljanić. At the exhibition, citizens will be able to, in addition to the organized guidance, write down their testimonies from the elections. (if they have them)
The head of Crta's legal team, Pavle Dimitrijević, said that due to vote buying and circular voting, better known as the "Bulgarian train", Crta submitted more reports to the police than in any previous election.
The Istinomer website has acquired a new database, which includes addresses throughout Serbia with the number of voters registered to vote in the local, provincial and parliamentary elections on December 17, 2023.
The director of the CRTA organization, Raša Nedeljkov, is in Brussels at the invitation of the European Economic and Social Council, to whose members he presented findings on electoral irregularities in Serbia. He also spoke with representatives of political groups in the European Parliament, the EU External Affairs Service and the Department of Justice and Enlargement.
"President Vučić must deal with the issues raised by the OSCE regarding democracy in Serbia, and not divert attention from it by attacking democratic activists," announced the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.
An SNS official wrote on the X social network that Crta, which revealed that a number of voters were registered at as many as 10 polling stations in two states, should be banned
According to official data obtained by the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia, the number of voters in Novi Sad has increased by almost three thousand people since December 17. Crta says that new migrations of voters cannot be prevented if the institutions do not start doing their job
The company that deals with publishing outdoor advertisements refused to publish Crta's advertisement message with the explanation that it "violates the Law on Advertising"
A house of 58 square meters with 40 voters. House of 130 square meters with 30 voters. That's how it was in the elections on December 17. And now they are working on removing the evidence of fraud, CRTA program director Raša Nedeljkov told "Vreme" and asked for the involvement of an international commission in the mess with voter lists.
It was recorded that voters arrived in an organized manner from various parts of Serbia (e.g. from Pancevo, Valjevo, Čačak, Arandjelovac, Smederevo, Vršac, Novi Sad, etc.), as well as from Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, this Observation Mission states.
The results of the elections in Belgrade do not reflect the will of the voters who live there, the organization CRTA announced, demanding that the institutions investigate how the integrity of the elections was violated.
"We have the impression that there are more irregularities than before. Because for the first time we have such a large number of observers and that for the first time the opposition has a clear coverage of the polling stations with its controllers," political consultant Dušan Lj told "Vreme". Milenkovic
"This is something that is happening to us for the first time under very strange circumstances, in the yard of the police station," CRTE program director Raša Nedeljkov told Vreme.
10 percent of voters turned out for the parliamentary elections at the polling stations in Belgrade by 9,6 a.m., which is more than the 2022 elections, when in that period the turnout in Belgrade was 8,4 percent.
Forging signatures is not a new phenomenon and has been repeated since the 2016 election, but no one has been held accountable for it yet.
The activities and messages recorded so far by both public officials and the ruling party in many cases do not make a clear and unequivocal distinction and boundary between the state and the party, leaving room for manipulation and illicit influence on voters.
