The media landscape in Serbia is in a state of expansion with numerous non-transparent areas of the media scene, particularly related to media ownership and financing. A continual need for indicators and evidence that are essential for the debate on the extent to which the media market in Serbia supports values of democracy and pluralism, and functions according to the principles of the rule of law, is recognised.
The citizens of Serbia are less and less interested in Serbia’s future in the EU, while the attitude towards the war in Ukraine shifts. These are the results of CRTA’s field research of public opinion, done from September 24th to October 3rd. More than a third of citizens (36%) would be indifferent towards accession to the EU, while 28% would be glad, and 33% would be concerned. An even bigger percentage, 43%, would be indifferent towards rupture of EU accession negotiations.
During the first three months of the war in Ukraine, this topic was dominant in the media, while other topics were completely marginalised. Unlike the period before the start of the war when the media was sympathetic to Russia, after the start of the conflict that open support was softened. Nevertheless, according to media monitoring…
In order to encourage an open dialogue on key issues pertaining to the future of democracy in Serbia, in light of critical circumstances on the internal and international level, Crta organized the two-day multi-stakeholder international conference “Democracy; a Minimal Consensus” on June 27 and 28 in Belgrade. We gathered more than 200 representatives of state…
A total of 618 out of 1.089 citizens with the right to vote, i.e. 56,7 percent, voted at the second revote within parliamentary elections at the polling station 6 in Bujanovac (Veliki Trnovac), which is less than in the previous revote which recorded a turnout of 64 percent.
CRTA invites experts to submit proposals for consultancy services in areas of communications, public relations and social networks outreach. The invitation aims to create the database of communications experts that would be engaged per need basis for provision of the expert support to CRTA and other civil society organizations in terms of strengthening their communications capacities.
CRTA’s Observation Mission monitored the parliamentary, presidential, and elections for members of the Belgrade City Assembly on the basis of two representative and random samples of 500 polling stations in Serbia and 450 in Belgrade.
On the basis of processed data from 99 percent of polling stations, voter turnout in presidential elections elections is 58,6 percent (margin of error 1 percent). On the basis of processed data from 99 percent of polling stations, voter turnout in parliamentary elections elections is 58,7 percent (margin of error 1 percent). …
Election day went in an atmosphere full of tensions that on several occasions escalated into physical violence, manifesting the unpreparedness of election administration and the lack of citizens’ trust in institutions. Extremely poor organization of the voting process and tensions on the election day were the expected outcome of the continuous degradation of the integrity of the electoral process in its entirety, which was marked by strengthening and sophistication of mechanisms of electoral corruption, and endangerment of citizens’ voting rights.
