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…
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…
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’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.
