Parliamentary Committee Adopts Ruling Party’s Proposed Amendments to Election Law

Miroslav Petrasinovic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC)

The Serbian parliament's Committee on Justice, State Administration and Local Government on May 11 adopted the proposed amendments to election law put forward by Serbian Progressive Party MP Miroslav Petrasinovic.

The amendments would apply to the Law on electing the president of the Republic, the Law on electing members of the National Assembly and the Law on local elections.

Petrasinovic said at the Committee session that the amendments were proposed in line with recommendations by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. "With these amendments we wish to follow what the international mission recommends, we want to reform our election legislation, to change it, so that tomorrow, when the election is over, the results are acceptable both to us and to the opposition," Petrasinovic said.

People's Movement of Serbia MP Aleksandar Ivanvic said the amendments should be withdrawn from parliamentary procedure, stressing that "the fundamental problem is the absence of trust," especially in the change that would allow one voter to support multiple tickets.

Having been adopted by the Serbian parliament's Committee on Justice, State Administration and Local Government, the proposed amendments will be debated by the parliament.