The CRTA Election Observation Mission assesses that the course of the election campaign thus far has been marked by pronounced advantages which the ruling parties have gained through the abuse of institutions and manipulations of the electoral calendar. In less than two years, the second extraordinary parliamentary and Belgrade elections were announced. Extraordinary provincial elections were…
Three thousand CRTA observers, trained according to the highest international standards, will monitor Election Day, specifically the quality of the voting process in the parliamentary and Belgrade elections on December 17th. CRTA’s Election Day reporting will be based on two random samples, representative of Serbia (500 polling stations) and of Belgrade (500 polling stations). The…
Due to indications pointing to possible abuses of state institutions in cases of election corruption, the CRTA Election Observation Mission has sent out letters to around 1600 addresses of officials in city and municipal administrations throughout Serbia, appealing to their personal and professional responsibility, and reminding them that they are legally obligated to protect the…
CRTA in collaboration with BFMI, explores how advertising revenues from major North American and European brands are funding and legitimising media outlets that disseminate disinformation on the Balkans’s Russia-Ukraine conflict, Kosovo and other divisive issues. The report calls on policymakers, civil society and the private sector to take concrete steps to ensure corporate advertising strategies…
Without the intention of questioning the independence of the prosecution, the CRTA Election Observation Mission calls on the responsible Public Prosecutor’s Offices to urgently and ex officio investigate cases of forgery of signatures of voter support on several electoral lists in order to establish the facts, to protect the integrity of the electoral process and…
The initial phase of the pre-election campaign has been characterized by the inequalities of participants in the race, particularly in terms of the significant advantages the ruling parties gain by abusing institutions, further continuing to blur the line between themselves and the state. There are also doubts among the public about the integrity of the…
CRTA has activated its observation mission ahead of extraordinary elections scheduled for December 17, 2023. As in previous years, CRTA’s Election Observation Mission will monitor the entire electoral process, including the campaign, Election Day, and the post-election process up until the official declaration of results. A team of long-term observers, deployed across all regions of…
CRTA invites all participants in elections, especially the highest state officials, to stop frightening citizens and encouraging the atmosphere of fear in the election campaign, in order to decrease tensions in the public. The most recent and most drastic example of the lack of accountability is an official announcement of the Ministry of Public Administration…
Electoral corruption and clientelism spare no areas, even those that might seem less lucrative for political parties, such as the social welfare system, in which, despite limited resources, political parties find space for their interests. By coercing and “buying” the votes of the most economically vulnerable citizens, political parties exploit the situation in which half…
