The DPS-SD coalition celebrated in Bijela, voting at two polling stations in Šavnik was interrupted again

Next Sunday, the election procedure will be repeated for the fourth time in the remaining two places - in Šavnik, in the Municipality building, where 483 voters are registered, and in the village of Kruševice, where 58 have the right to vote.

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From the polling station in the village of Bijela, Photo: Svetlana Mandić
From the polling station in the village of Bijela, Photo: Svetlana Mandić
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Ažurirano: 06.11.2022. 21:42h
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The President of the MEC, Dušan Radanović, confirmed that the DPS-SD coalition in Bijela won 59 votes, the Za budućnost Šavnik coalition 41, and Idemo ljudi 13, as well as that two ballots were invalid.

Including the previous votes, the DPS-SD coalition won 549 votes, which is 121 votes less than the opposition coalitions (For the future of Šavnik, it won 571 votes, and Idemo ljudi 99).

"The turnout in Bijela was 83,33 percent, while the total turnout in the municipality of Šavnik, at the 21st polling station, was 62,55 percent (1.231 voters voted). At the polling stations in the Šavnik municipality building and in the village of Kruševice, the elections will most likely be repeated on Sunday, November 13," said Radanović.

483 voters were registered in the Municipality building, and 58 in the village of Kruševica.

20h AM

Next Sunday, the election procedure will be repeated for the fourth time in the remaining two places - in Šavnik, in the Municipality building, where 483 voters are registered, and in the village of Kruševice, where 58 have the right to vote.

20h AM

With today's voting results, the DPS-SD coalition won a total of 549 votes, 571 for the future of Šavnik, and 99 for Idemo ljudi.

This means that, according to the results so far, the opposition coalitions have 121 more votes than the ruling DPS-SD coalition.

20h AM

According to the unofficial results at the polling station in Bijela, the coalition DPS-SD won 59 votes, the coalition Za budućnost Šavnik 41, and Idemo ljudi 13 votes.

At that polling station, 115 out of a total of 138 registered voters voted, so the turnout was just over 83 percent.

Two ballots were invalid.

19h AM

By 19 pm in the village of Bijela, 101 out of 138 registered voters had voted. The percentage of turnout at that polling station was just over 73 percent.

18h AM

By 18 p.m., 86 out of 138 registered voters had voted in the village of Bijela.

The percentage of turnout at that polling station was 62,31 percent. At that polling station, seven voters voted by letter.

17h AM

According to the President of the MEC, Dušan Radanović, 17 voters had voted in the village of Bijela by 70 pm, out of the 138 registered at that polling station.

"That is 50,7 percent of the total number of voters in the village of Bijela. Voting takes place there without any problems," said Radanović.

Radanović
Radanovićphoto: Svetlana Mandić
16h AM

At the Bijela polling station, voting took place without incident and by 16 p.m., 58 voters had voted, which is 42 percent of the total number of voters at that station.

polling station Bijela
photo: Svetlana Mandić
15h AM

In the municipality of Šavnica, all catering facilities are still closed and a large number of policemen are present.

Shavnik police
photo: Svetlana Mandić
15h AM

By 13:51 p.m., 138 voters, out of XNUMX registered at that polling station, had voted at the Bijela polling station, the only one where the election process is ongoing.

According to the president of the MEC, Dušan Radanović, election materials were returned from the polling station in the Šavnik municipality building and from the village of Kruševice.

Shavnik vote
photo: Svetlana Mandić
Change: 15:42 p.m
15h AM

In Šavnik, the police filed criminal charges against five people for violating the right to vote, causing minor bodily injuries, assaulting an official in the performance of official duties, destroying voting documents and preventing voting from taking place.

13h AM

The Workers' Party condemned the violent act that took place today at the polling station in Kruševice, where Democratic Front (DF) polling committee member Radula Lazović was attacked.

In the announcement, they say that any verbal and physical violence caused by "deliberately spreading political tensions" is reprehensible.

From that party, they appealed to the competent authorities to adequately sanction "ordered attackers who carry out the orders of the Democratic Party of Socialists".

"It is more than evident that this event is another in a series of demonstrations of "democracy" in the DPS way. The losing party is trying to change the electoral will of the people in a way well known to them through the demonstration of crime and violence," the announcement reads.

12h AM

The Coalition for the Future of Šavnik announced that the main culprit for the incident in Kruševice is the current president of the municipality of Šavnik, Jugoslav Jakić.

12h AM

In Bijela, 11.30 voters voted by 31:22,46 a.m., which is XNUMX percent of registered voters at that polling station.

From the polling station in Bijela
From the polling station in Bijelaphoto: Svetlana Mandić
11h AM

Radule Lazović, a member of the electoral committee in Kruševice from the "For the Future of Savnik" coalition, told "Vijesta" that he was attacked by four young men.

"They are not residents of Šavnik and we did not allow them to vote," he said.

He said that minor injuries were found during the examination by the doctor and that he gave a statement to the police.

He stated that he did not know the young men who attacked him and who were taken into custody "because they are not from here".

"I expect that the authorities will finally do something about this issue," said Lazović, saying that he expects tensions to subside.

 
11h AM

Voting in Kruševice will not continue.

11h AM

The president of the polling committee at the Kruševica polling station, Zdravko Žižić, said that the polling station at number 14 was interrupted because one of the voters was not allowed to vote.

"I can't say anything about it because I wasn't there at the time, but I know that voting was suspended because some people were not recognized by a member of the polling committee, even though he was recognized by a device designed to recognize voters," he said. Žižić.

11h AM

The "Vijesti" reporter recorded what the Kruševica polling station looked like after the fight.

Kruševice vote
photo: Svetlana Mandić
 
10h AM

Miljan Istijanović, a member of the polling committee from the Bijela polling station, said that for now everything is going well at that polling station.

 

As they said, everyone is on good terms with them, both the position and the opposition, and they also know how to sing.

 
 
Change: 11:05 p.m
10h AM

As the coalition "For the future of Šavnik" told Vijest, their member of the electoral committee in Kruševice, Radule Lazović, was attacked.

Allegedly, four young men came to vote, but since they are not residents of the Šavnica municipality, the opposition did not allow them to vote.

They attacked Lazović, broke ballot boxes, scattered voting materials and fled, but the police arrested them not far from the polling station in Kruševice and detained them.

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