Key issues such as pressure on voters, significant media inequality, compromise of the Voter Registry, and blurring the lines between state and party are, unfortunately, not on the agenda of this meeting – said Rasa Nedeljkov, CRTA’s Program Director, at a meeting held today in the parliament at the invitation of Ana Brnabic, President of…
Read the full speech of Rasa Nedeljkov, Crta’s Program Director and Chief of the Crta’s Election Observation Mission at the session of the European Economic and Social Council in Brussels held on 5 April 2024. Months have passed since the December Elections, and a new election cycle is in sight, but the government keeps denying a…
BLURRED LINE BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE PARTY Finding: “dominated by the decisive involvement of the President, which, together with the ruling party’s systemic advantages, created unjust conditions” Finding: “pressure on public sector employees, misuse of public resources, and voter inducement schemes raised concerns about voters’ ability to make a choice free from undue…
CRTA assessed that the extraordinary parliamentary and Belgrade elections, held on December 17, 2023, were not free and fair, as stated in the Final report of the CRTA’s Election Observation Mission, presented today at the media conference in Belgrade. The election outcomes emerged as a result of the unlawful advantages gained by the ruling party,…
The extraordinary parliamentary and Belgrade elections were not free and fair. The election outcomes emerged as a result of the unlawful advantages gained by the ruling party, with the complicity of several state institutions and authorities – primarily the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as…
Read the full speech of Rasa Nedeljkov, Crta Program Director and Chief of the Crta’s Election Observation Mission in front of the members of the Bundestag EU Affairs Committee. Respective Chair, respective members of the Committee, Once again, elections in Serbia were not conducted as a mechanism for potential change, but as a showcase of…
After the numerous irregularities and abuses that we, as the CRTA Election Observation Mission noted before, during and after Election Day, and which we presented to the public on several occasions, citizens have gotten in contact with us and shared information about manipulations related to elections. Investigating information obtained from citizens and cross-checking it with…
Based on the information gathered and the analyses conducted thus far, the CRTA Election Observation Mission expresses a well-founded suspicion that in the elections on December 17, organized voter migrations occurred to an extent that crucially influenced the outcome of the very close elections for the Belgrade City Assembly – this is the main conclusion…
Organized voter migration is a type of electoral engineering that includes coordinated behavior of voters that temporarily change their residence to another constituency to influence voting results. In Serbia, in the Elections 2023 it might have been used on a large scale to influence the outcomes of the local elections strategically called only in one…
