Photo: Bojan Stekić"The first phase of the elections for members of the National Assembly and councilors in the assemblies of 65 cities and municipalities was marked by phenomena that threaten the integrity of the electoral process, and all competent authorities should have a far more responsible attitude towards these phenomena and react to them energetically", he said in a written statement. member of the Republic Election Commission, lawyer Rodoljub Šabić
Member of the Republican Electoral Commission, lawyer Rodoljub Šabić, assessed that the first phase of the election for members of the National Assembly and councilors in the assemblies of 65 cities and municipalities was marked by phenomena that threaten the integrity of the electoral process and that all competent authorities should have a far more responsible attitude towards these phenomena and react to them energetically.
Šabić stated in a written statement that citizens are faced with events every day that indicate violations of the rules on media representation of participants in the election campaign, or abuse of state and public functions and resources for the purpose of party presentation, and that the reactions of REM or the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption according to as a rule, they are absent or possibly only sporadic.
"A special cause for concern are the events that raise suspicions about the mass execution of criminal acts of bribery in connection with the elections, violations of the secrecy of voting, unauthorized collection of citizens' personal data and falsification of official documents," Šabić said. He added that these are crimes that are prosecuted ex officio and that the public rightly expects that the prosecutor's office urgently initiates and conducts proceedings in order to establish the truth and bring those responsible to justice.
We are entering the elections for the Belgrade Assembly with seven of the 13 announced electoral lists having serious allegations of falsification of the signatures of citizens' support, and the public received only a curt announcement from the competent prosecutor's office in this regard, that a case was formed for verification, Šabić pointed out. According to him, it is unacceptable that until today the public has not received any information about how and whether the prosecutor's office in Vranje reacted to the news about the almost unbelievable amount of around 6.000 forged and certified signatures of citizens.
Šabić stated that the public must immediately receive answers to the questions of whether the declarations of support were authenticated with a forged or real seal of the City Administration of Vranje, whether it was a previously stolen seal and, if so, whether there is an official note about the theft and a criminal report or is it for one of the stamps in the possession of the City Administration was used for the attestation.
"It is unnecessary to comment on the different consequences of each of the possible answers to these questions, and the authorities should certainly be aware that by delaying to give them, regardless of the fact that the RIK refused to announce the contested lists, they seriously threaten the integrity of the election process," Šabić pointed out.
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