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Voter Turnout by 11am – 14 percent

According to the CRTA’s election observation mission, a total of 14,1 percent of voters have voted until 11am, out of 6.584.376 registered to vote at the parliamentary elections at 8.433 polling stations. Margin of error was +/- 0,5 percent.

Voter Turnout by 10am – 9,1 percent

According to the CRTA’s election observation mission, a total of 9,1 percent of citizens registered in the voters list have voted in parliamentary elections until 10am. Margin of error was +/- 0,3 percent. This voter turnout is similar to turnout by 10am in 2016 parliamentary elections.

How are we going to observe the election day – June 21?

As domestic observation mission observing the elections by the highest international standards, CRTA will monitor and assess the quality of the election process on the election day, June 21, 2020. CRTA’s observes will be deployed at the random and representative sample of 500 polling stations across the country. In addition, CRTA’s mobile teams will monitor developments outside of polling stations in all Serbia’s regions on the election day, as well as the work of the Republic Electoral Commission.

In the state of emergency, the regime is absolutely dominant on televisions with national coverage

Members of the ruling majority dominated the contents of programmes of television stations with national frequencies and occupied 91 percent of time dedicated to political entities in the extended prime-time on: RTS 1, Prva, Pink, Happy and B92 – as shown in the findings of the media monitoring performed by the CTRA in the period from the state of emergency proclamation on March 15th until its revocation on May 6th.

The City Emergency Headquarters in Bor unconstitutionally and illegally restricts human rights

On April 6th, the City Emergency Headquarters in Bor adopted 11 orders introducing, inter alia, measures hindering human and minority rights although the Constitution and the laws of Serbia do not foresee such authority of the city headquarters. Orders, issued contrary to provisions of the Constitution and the law considerably and illegally restrict human rights and introduce obligations, i.e. responsibilities for groups of citizens that laws do not recognise and to a large extent cause legal uncertainty amongst citizens.