The election of members of the Parliament of the Republic of Serbia, the presidential election, and local elections in 13 local self-government units, including Belgrade, were held simultaneously on April 3, 2022. The parliamentary and presidential elections were organized with the Republic of Serbia as one constituency. The parliamentary and local elections were conducted using a proportional electoral system, and parliamentary mandates are distributed by the system of the highest quotient between candidate lists that have crossed the electoral threshold of 3 percent of all valid votes. The presidential elections were conducted using the majority electoral system, through direct voting for presidential candidates.
The preliminary report of the Observation Mission on the quality of the election campaign for the presidential, parliamentary, and Belgrade city elections, which will be held on April 3, 2022, shows that the institutions responsible for law enforcement and protection of voting rights have not sufficiently contributed to protecting the public interest or achieving higher…
Recommendations for improving the situation in the areas in the competence of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, the Commissioner for Protection of Equality, the Protector of Citizens and the Anti-Corruption Agency are the result of the long term monitoring and analyzing of activities of independent institutions. The subject of the Analysis is mostly the quality of the reports of the mentioned independent institutions and their recommendations, as well as the actions of the National Assembly according to the received reports. Therefore, the presented recommendations cover several different aspects of the functioning of independent institutions, with the common goal of improving the situation in the field of human rights and the fight against corruption. In order to improve the bigger picture, it is necessary to focus equal efforts on improving the practice of independent institutions, improving parliamentary procedures that should ensure the implementation of recommendations of independent bodies and acting on other recommendations. For this reason, the following recommendations by CRTA are aimed specifically at each of these actors: independent institutions, the National Assembly and other bodies of authority.
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.
A total of 55,1 percent of citizens voted in the presidential elections by 19:00 (margin of error 1 percent). In comparison, voter turnout by 19:00 in the 2016 parliamentary elections amounted to 53,1 percent, and 45,5 percent in 2020. On the territory of Belgrade, voter turnout by 19:00 in parliamentary elections is 52,2 (margin of error 0,6 percent), which is 4 percent points higher than in the 2018 Belgrade elections.
A total of 42,1 percent of voters registered in the Voters’ List voted in parliamentary elections by 16:00 (margin of error 1 percent). In comparison, voter turnout by 16:00 in the 2016 parliamentary elections was 39,6 percent, and 34,6 percent in the 2020 elections. On the territory of Belgrade, voter turnout in parliamentary elections is slightly lower than in the rest of Serbia, amounting to 37,9 percent (margin of error 0,7 percent).
In the first half of the election day only, CRTA’s observers recorded several cases of physical and verbal violence at and in the vicinity of polling stations, while other violent incidents were reported as well.
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