Opposition Official: Police Join Electoral Process

Djordje Miketic (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

The Together Party’s official and a candidate nominated for the Parliament of Serbia by the Serbia Against Violence coalition, Djordje Miketic, said on Dec. 20 that his party already warned a month ago that the Ministry of the Interior had joined the electoral process, or rather, election rigging. 

Miketic explained that on Election Day it became clear that an organized group of people in Serbian institutions had illegally registered tens of thousands of phantom voters at other people’s addresses, and then the regime provided the logistics necessary to bring them to a polling place unknown to them, where they voted in local polls. 

“Even though the logistics center at the Belgrade Arena is the best known, the same operation was conducted across Serbia. People would be transported from the municipalities in which local elections had not been scheduled to those in which they were, so that they could vote. Also, a large number of voters were ‘imported’ from another state, namely, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is also important to note that the right to vote was abolished for persons serving prison sentences in Belgrade,” Miketic has cautioned in a statement. 

The opposition official has cautioned that it’s a new stage of dictatorship. “We are no longer talking about the police and prosecutors absolving the regime of responsibility by failing to act. This is our institutions playing an active role in election rigging. Our ‘democratic’ institutions take part in the abolition of democracy in our country,” Miketic said.