The lamentation of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) due to the fact that the citizens of Montenegro exercise their right to vote in our country and possibly in another country is hypocritical, because the election process in Nikšić took place according to their rules, an official of the United Montenegro told "Vijesti" ( UCG) and former Minister of Internal Affairs in the transitional government Goran Danilović.

He added that the local elections in Nikšić were held according to the law passed by the former government headed by DPS, who adapted it to themselves, but that the strategy, as he claims, is insufficient even for them.
"Even with all these things, they failed to win the elections, now they remembered that something was unacceptable... It seems that what they adapted to themselves at one point turned against them," said Danilović.
Yesterday, the MUP, reacting to calls that began before the elections on Sunday that the voter list includes people who vote in Serbia, asked why the submitters of these initiatives did not deal with it earlier.
The media speculated that around 1.000 voters were double-registered, and CeMI confirmed a few days ago that this was true, claiming that they had checked.
Just before the Nikšić elections, the State Secretary of the MUP, Rade Milošević, said that the MUP had sent an official letter to Serbia and that they were awaiting verification. She did not arrive until yesterday, as told to "Vijesti" in the MUP.
"Perhaps someone imagines that it is enough to be in possession of some lists that are obtained from 'anonymous' sources, and that 'someone over there' with one click, flat-rate and overnight takes away the right to vote, as one of the basic human rights guaranteed by the Constitution of Montenegro. The question is why the submitters of these initiatives did not previously deal with whether and how certain persons were registered in the voter's list, not only after the elections on August 30 last year, but also how they know who these persons would potentially vote for in Montenegro?", states the MUP.
Danilović reminds that there are many who are on the voter list because they have not registered their place of residence. He called on his colleagues to solve problems related to the voter list together.
"Here is an opportunity to define all this in a joint effort through the parliamentary dialogue and through the parliamentary committee. We from UCG, I personally, proposed very concrete solutions so that this would not happen to us. If he wanted, DPS had time to take care of it. It is up to us, the parliamentary majority, to comply with this, to harmonize it with the law and the Constitution. We need to have the voter list up to the level of tolerability, I'm afraid it will take us all the time until the next parliamentary elections... because it's a big job that involves changing legislation and giving new powers to certain structures and field verification of residence. This implies that the population census should be done differently, that a rule should be introduced according to which the police can also check the place of residence, this is also good for the fight against organized crime", concluded Danilović.
He emphasized that while he was a minister, he tried to solve the problem of voters who vote in Montenegro and in another country, but that he was limited by the law.
Precisely because of this, the Ministry of Interior drafted the Draft Amendments to the Law on Registers of Residence of Citizens in cooperation with the Council for the Control of the Voter List.
"Such a major issue requires the synchronized work of several state bodies and a clear political decision to approach the aforementioned work without selectivity. Only in this way, this major request can result in success", the Ministry of Interior announced yesterday.
The President of the Management Board of CeMI, Zlatko Vujović, said at a press conference on March 16 that following the information published in the media, they investigated and found data that 961 persons who were registered in the voter list for the municipality of Nikšić were also registered in Serbia. .
That is, that they have a dual residence, which represents, as he pointed out, a violation of the law.
In the preliminary report "Citizen monitoring of local elections in Nikšić, Montenegro 2021" carried out by CeMI, it was explained how they carried out the verification:
"Given that the list of persons who are allegedly registered in the electoral register of Serbia does not contain the JMBG of these persons, but only the date of birth, it was primarily necessary to find their personal identification number, which can be done by inspecting the electoral register. When the identity number of these persons is entered on the website https://upit.birackispisak.gov.rs/, incomplete information is obtained, i.e. the polling station in Serbia where a person with this identity number is registered, but without first and last name", it says. in the analysis.
MUP: There were no fictitious documents
"Anyone who does not have a residence in Montenegro or has dual citizenship, after June 2006, respecting the Constitution of Montenegro, must be deleted from the voter's list, regardless of whether they are persons who have residence or citizenship in Luxembourg, Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Australia", it was announced from the MUP. They added that they monitored changes in the voter list daily and activated the AFIS system for the territory of the municipality of Nikšić. According to them, this has never happened before local elections. "The MUP also supervised the process of creating identity cards, with a clear note that no fictitious ones were printed in the last three months," they added.
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