Photo: Jadranka Ilić/TanjugAs the elections get closer, the number of phantom voters increases, the opposition claims. Calls to voters that neighbors have never heard of are allegedly coming to addresses all over Serbia. Because of this "alarming situation", the Moramo coalition is calling the opposition parties to an urgent meeting on Tuesday. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić comments on the whole situation with "so what"
Every election in Serbia is accompanied by certain irregularities, and the voter list is an eternal subject of debate. That's how the dust arose this time because of "non-existent people" who receive invitations to vote at addresses where no one has ever seen them, according to opposition politicians. Another problem is invitations to vote for deceased persons.
The slips often do not contain the exact address, but only the street and building number, while the apartment number is mostly omitted, the opposition claims.
Candidate for mayor of Belgrade from the Moramo coalition Dobrica Veselinović assessed the situation as "alarming" and added that the entire election process was called into question. On Tuesday, Moramo called the signatories of the "Agreement for a Responsible Serbia" to an urgent meeting because of "phantom voters".
The statement says that "the regime is in a panic" and that it is "preparing for election manipulation", so they invite citizens who notice such calls to take phantom ballots and send them photos.
We must request from the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government that the website allows voters to review registered voters at their residential addresses, which the CRTA observation mission requested a few weeks ago.
The Freedom and Justice Party (SSP) posted instructions and forms on the party's website on how citizens can report fraudulent voters.
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, answered the question about "phantom voters" with "so what", noting that the voter list "has never been more updated". He threw the responsibility on the controllers at the polling stations.
The representative of the Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA) Pavle Dimitrijević explained that citizens can report changes to the single voter list until March 30. In this way, they can remove phantom voters from their addresses, those who have passed away or those who just don't live where they received the invitation to vote. CRTA again asked for insight into the revision of the voter list, but it was rejected.
Phantom voters were also registered in Nis and Kragujevac.
Already at the beginning of February, the SSP spoke about the "scheme of importing votes from Republika Srpska", which operated according to the principle of accelerated acquisition of Serbian citizenship for RS citizens and their registration at Belgrade addresses. At certain addresses, there were dilapidated buildings in which no one has obviously lived for years.
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