CRTA Observer Mission Starts Monitoring Election Campaign

Voting in Serbia (BetaPhoto/Milos Miskov)

The Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA) activated the observer mission for the Dec. 17 elections on Nov. 2, to monitor the entire election process: the campaign, the election day and the procedure after the election day, until the proclamation of official results.

The team of observers, deployed in all regions of the country, has started monitoring the activities of political figures in the election campaign, and the work of election administration and other institutions, while the media monitoring team is following the reports of national media.

“Since 2016, when we started observing elections, we have witnessed a constant erosion of election conditions and an absence of concrete measures that could fundamentally stop the collapse of integrity of the election process, primarily regarding problems of media inequality of election participants, abuse of public resources and coercion of voters,” stated the chief of the CRTA Observer Mission, Rasa Nedeljkov.

CRTA has called on the citizens to contact the legal team of CRTA by email: prijavi@crta.rs if they observe cases of public officials campaigning or abusing public resources, or have knowledge about voter bribing and coercion. The Observer Mission is following the highest international standards of civil election observing and, on the basis of their findings, CRTA has formulated a large number of recommendations for improving the election conditions.