Following the rejection of opposition complaints by the city commission in Zaječar and the municipal commission in Kosjerić, the regularity of the voting can now be challenged before the Higher Court. Opposition representatives in both locations have announced appeals to this institution.
Dragana Rašić, the lead candidate for the “Change We Believe In” list in the Zaječar elections, stated that they were not surprised by the rejection of their complaints.
“You have institutions that should have reacted during the electoral process, during the campaign. We saw an official campaign, in the context of giving money for votes, gifts, and everything else that is forbidden. Ultimately, when we found a copy of the voter list and showed it, we were on the street in front of the prosecutor’s office, fifty steps away. All institutions were absolutely informed about what happened in Zaječar on election night, before the elections, and after the elections. They should have reacted ex officio,” she said.
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Stefan Janjić, lawyer for “United for Kosjerić,” also stated that they were not surprised.
“Although this involves a serious violation of electoral law, the commission rejected our complaint with some ridiculous reasoning. We will file an appeal today. Nevertheless, we hoped that the Higher Court in Užice would uphold our appeal, because it involves a serious violation of electoral law,” he said.
Rašić added that “opposition lists” voted against the complaints in Zaječar.
“That is the fundamental part of this story. We pointed this out throughout the entire electoral process and our campaign, that lists number 2 and 3 were the only opposition lists, and that all others can be considered satellite lists of the SNS,” she said.
The irregularities they found, she claims, “are sufficient to overturn the electoral process.”
“We are not in a situation to choose; the entire process here is problematic. We found more than 30 people who voted with a right of residence but no permanent address; that’s the attitude that everything will pass. We had a huge number of people who were registered to vote outside polling stations, finding enormous irregularities, serious electoral offenses that absolutely should cast doubt on the entire electoral process,” she said.
She announced that they will “definitely go all the way regarding the institutional struggle.”
“Until we exhaust all legal tools. On the other hand, those who today sit in the prosecutor’s office, police, and courts must be aware of one thing: the anger of citizens is becoming extremely great. They feel injustice and theft; they feel as if a thief has entered their private apartment and taken something from them,” she said, adding that she hopes “humanity and the pursuit of correctness and justice will ultimately prevail.”
Janjić agreed with Rašić that they will “try institutionally and with all available legal means.”
“However, it is much more important that, despite everything that happened in Kosjerić, the opposition and students on one list achieved an excellent result. The difference is only 51 votes. If someone had personally asked me a few months ago, a large number of citizens have no idea where Kosjerić is, and that the elections in Kosjerić would be a litmus test and that all of Serbia would be focused on Kosjerić. The government recorded a 30 percent decline, the other list won almost 30 percent more compared to the last local elections. We have reason to be satisfied with the result; we are dissatisfied, of course, we wanted to win, we are going to the end to see where this will take us,” he said.
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