Djilas Releases New Footage of "Imported" Votes from Republika Srpska

Dragan Djilas SSP (Photo: Luka Filipovic)

Freedom and Justice Party leader Dragan Djilas has unveiled a new video that, according to him, reveals the scheme of registering new "inhabitants" of Belgrade, N1 TV reported late on Feb. 6. 

The video, made on Feb. 3, explains how the issue of citizenship and place of residence for people who are not from Belgrade is organized, and how the entire process is coordinated. The recording includes a conversation with one of the coordinators who, in his own words, is in charge of doing that job and taking payment slips.

The television recalled that two days earlier Djilas had released the first video based on which he claimed the ruling party was "importing" votes from Republika Srpska. According to that footage, the only condition for obtaining Serbian citizenship for people who applied at police stations across Serbia at the end of last month and the beginning of this month is that they vote for the Serbian Progressive Party.

"People are brought by vans to police stations across Serbia, most of them in Belgrade," said the Freedom and Justice Party. When asked where they were from, the citizens replied that they were from "across the border, from Sarajevo, Bijeljina, from Bosnia."

Every group has a list and its own coordinator, added the Freedom and Justice Party.

After the release of the previous video, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic reacted by saying that it was a disgrace and proof of what Djilas thought about people from Republika Srpska. The Freedom and Justice Party leader replied that he had not insulted the citizens of Republika Srpska since his own ancestors hailed from those parts, but rather that he had shown and would continue to show what the ruling regime was doing.