"Complete corruption" in the elections: SNS in Vranje knocked on people's doors at three in the morning in order to replace the controllers

That someone had planned in advance how to make a complete kurtzschluss and mockery electoral process - probably he would not have managed to achieve as many irregularities as the progressives in about 100 election places in Vranje and its surroundings.

Elections for local communities were held on Sunday, June 1, a SNS won 324 out of 325 seats in Vranje, as well as 51 out of 51 in Vranjska Banja. However, this pompous victory is actually a progressive charade.

"That's right, it was a complete scam and an election attempt," Slobodan Petrović from the opposition movement Srce told "Vreme".

Before the elections, the opposition decided not to participate in the elections, due to irregularities in the pre-election process and the entire campaign, but they wanted to keep controllers at the polling stations and monitor how many citizens would follow their call and boycott the elections.

However, at the local level, a regulation was passed that all controllers must be appointed in elections, exactly in the local communities where they reside. This would mean that everyone can be a controller in elections only in the local community in which they live, which is completely incomprehensible, if we take into account the democratic procedure. Some parties would have to practically have a representative in every part of the village at exactly the required address and appoint him as controller.

As it turned out that this unusual rule was not respected by the progressives, but the opposition, knowing about it, also deliberately misplaced its controllers, before the elections, the opposition representatives pointed out this irregularity.

"But what did the progressives do about that? They went from house to house of our controllers, who were the presidents of the commission in certain election places, in order to replace them. They did it by knocking on people's doors from midnight until 3 in the morning," says Petrović. "Nevertheless, the SNS deprived the opposition controllers of the right to be in the elections, while it only redistributed its personnel according to the law, and they did not even wait for the legal deadline for us to do the same distribution."

Photo: Tanjug / SNS

Well, you already voted.

Since, apart from the progressives and the SPS, where they participated, no one else had controllers in the elections, irregularities were reported by the citizens. One lady came to the elections, claims Petrović, to see that someone had already registered for her. After the police arrived, the opposition expects this polling place to be declared irregular.

The opposition lost controllers in 25 of more than 100 polling stations in Vranje and Vranjska Banja.

"Immediately before the elections, the SNS changed the numbers and markings of the polling stations, it's just incredible," says the opposition member, while his colleague Igor Zlatković, councilor of the Movement of Free Citizens and the opposition councilor group "Hrabro za Vranje" admits that they partly and intentionally placed their controllers incorrectly, in order to point out the insane regulation.

"Our job is to catch them in their mistakes, but the way they tried to correct that mistake is just crazy, they just dug in and made illegal moves," adds Zlatković, who filed around 30 criminal charges in a few days, due to irregularities surrounding the election.