Local elections: CRTA in Mionica at all polling stations; in Negotin and Sečanj with legal and mobile teams

CRTA will be among the citizens voting on November 30 – in Mionica and Negotin at regular local elections, and in Sečanj at extraordinary local elections. In addition to observers, CRTA’s legal teams will also be present, ready to support citizens in cases of pressure or any other violation of their voting rights.

In Mionica, CRTA observers will be present throughout the entire day at all polling stations, while in Negotin and Sečanj mobile teams will visit polling places and monitor events around them.

Citizens whose voting rights are being violated, or who wish to report an irregularity, incident, or any act of electoral corruption, can contact CRTA’s legal team at the email [email protected] or by phone at 063 591 585, as well as directly in Mionica, Sečanj, and Negotin.

The main goal of CRTA’s mission is to assess the environment in which election day is taking place, bearing in mind the tensions and numerous near-violent incidents that marked recent elections in other local municipalities, as well as the general crisis in the country, the rise in repression, and institutionalized lawlessness.

CRTA has already begun long-term observation of the election process in these three municipalities. Despite significant differences in the balance of political forces, in all of them the pre-election period has been marked by the misuse of public resources and functions (both local and national) for the benefit of the ruling party, clientelist practices, and a lingering sense of fear.

In Mionica and Sečanj, well-known techniques of pre-election engineering are also present, such as the nomination of “phantom” and pseudo-opposition lists. The assessment of the quality of these local elections may give the public a picture of the conditions under which a contest would take place in extraordinary parliamentary elections, which the authorities still avoid calling.