While they did not hurry with the election of the Government, the race of who will submit the list for the local elections first is well underway. The government already has an advantage at the start. Non-government organizations are already pointing to possible irregularities and phantoms.
Think globally, act locally. While their thoughts were with the president, who had just returned “across the pond,” the progressives took their designated place in the queue with their bodies. Immediately after the announcement of the local elections, they synchronized their watches and took their ID cards and pens in their hands.
Not in the campaign before the middle of May – was the instruction given by Vučić to the progressives at the beginning of April.
However, the SNS commissioner for Belgrade now explains how difficult it is for them that Vučić will join the campaign late, because, Brnabić explains, he is currently dealing with the defense of national interests.
“And he doesn’t deal with the campaign, which is a big handicap for us, let’s face it, it’s a huge problem for us and I know how much he wants to deal with it, but he clearly said: ‘People, Serbia comes first'” , said the President of the Assembly on TV Prva.
And as the president of the parliament, Brnabić, as she says, fights every day to improve election conditions. However, the first suspicions of irregularities appear in the pre-election process.
Although the decision on the forms for submission of election lists in Jagodina appeared on the RIK website on Friday at 9:51 p.m., almost six hours earlier the ruling coalition of United Serbia and the Socialist Party of Serbia had already announced that it was the first to submit the list in that city.
“We have a big problem of influence and the way in which the official position is used, where there are those officials in Jagodina who can order GIK and the municipality itself when to give them the forms and to give them to them before everyone else,” said Maja Stojanović from Građanski initiative.
Unfair conditions or lies. It depends on how you calculate the time in Jagodina.
“The City Election Commission in Jagodina published the Decision on forms for local elections on the website of the City Assembly at 12:10 on the same day. In this way, the forms required for submitting election lists became available to everyone, and we collected about 800 signatures in less than two hours and handed over the list around 4:00 p.m.,” the statement of the ruling coalition in Jagodina states.
This is how the ruling coalition in Jagodina is justifying itself, but in the official decision of the GIK in that city it can be clearly seen that the forms for handing in the list become available when they appear on the RIK website, and not on the website of the Jagodina Assembly.
And in Belgrade, they are wondering not only when and how the signatures were collected, but also who certified the signatures.
“And it is clearly seen that someone has determined the quotas that each municipal administration will certify,” said Nemanja Šarović, the leader of the “Ljubav Vera Nada” Movement.
Šarović does not yet know if he will participate in the elections, but he knows that the Russian list and the list “Sorry, this is for you”, as he says, are phantom lists created by the government and that there will be more people who will participate in the Belgrade elections by precisely specified municipalities should be scheduled for signature verification.
“People, these are all fakes, these are people who have no support, this has nothing to do with the elections.” “So you run a race of one hundred meters where even before the signal to start the race was given, three people have already finished the race, three of them who don’t know how to run,” said Šarović.
Maja Stojanović thinks that this is the situation in all of Serbia, not only in Belgrade.
“And it’s not the first time, we have those lists that are used to create fog and so that citizens don’t know who to vote for,” she stated.
When asked by the newspaper Danas why they did not collect signatures from notaries, but only in the municipalities and how they completed the work so quickly without calling the citizens, the Russian party said that due to the lack of interest of the notaries, they decided to bypass them, while the paper “Ćale, this is for you “in response, she pointed out her powerful infrastructure.
