The Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) plans to soon file a criminal complaint with the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) because, as it claims, some voters from Podgorica have the right to vote in Serbia and Republika Srpska (RS), "Vijesti" has learned unofficially.
According to the newspaper's information, that party, after receiving the opinion of a lawyer, will decide how to formulate the application, i.e. for which crime they will file it.
Head of DPS Danijel Zivkovic announced the day before yesterday that the party has "irrefutable evidence" that over 3.300 people who have the right to vote in Serbia and the entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are on the voter list for the elections in the capital scheduled for September 29. He said that the DPS will not allow those people to vote, but he did not say how, instead he announced that they would submit their names to the "competent prosecutor's office" and election boards.
"Vijesti" learned unofficially that the DPS determined until yesterday that nearly 2.200 people have the right to vote in Podgorica and Serbia, while about 120 can vote in the RS as well. The list from Serbia is supposedly final, while the one from the RS currently includes only six cities. It is not clear on what basis Živković's party announced the day before yesterday that there are over 3.300 of them in total.
According to the newspaper's knowledge, the DPS found that among those who have the right to vote in Podgorica and in Serbia, there are some MPs, candidates for councilors in the elections in Podgorica and members of their families, famous businessmen, prominent former and current athletes, professors, journalists, doctors. ..
Among those who can vote both in the capital and in the RS, there are no more familiar names to the general public. Half of them are registered in the voter's list in Banja Luka, about twenty in Bijeljina, close to twenty in Čelinac and Dobi, ten each in Prijedor and Pale...
"Vijesti" has no data on whether the "double voters" registered by DPS acquired another citizenship legally or not, so it is not clear whether they can legally vote in two countries or not.
In parallel with the submission of the application to the SDT, the DPS should decide how it could prevent "double voters" from voting in Podgorica.
The Electoral Commission must allow voting to every voter who is registered and who presents a valid ID.
One of the scenarios for "preventing electoral tourism" took place in Savnik, where the local elections, which started on October 23, 2022, have not yet been completed.
At two polling stations, in the municipal building and in the village of Kruševice, members of the polling committees from the parties that now make up the state government physically prevented the alleged "election tourists" from voting, i.e. people they claimed were falsely declaring their residence in Šavnik and thus influencing the election results. They claimed that these people vote for DPS.
The day before yesterday, Živković compared the case of "double voters" to the so-called election tourism in Serbia, when people from the RS came to vote in Belgrade at the end of last year and in the middle of this year.
"We had the opportunity to see that case in Belgrade and the European Parliament dealt with it... I cannot go into what political parties are animating or motivating these people to come to Montenegro, and you know we talked about it during the elections on the 30th. August 2020 and that there could be no change of government without it. This also happened during the so-called the battle for Nikšić", he said.
He said that a significant number of "double voters" they registered bought a plane ticket to come to Podgorica on election day.
"We know that we have an electoral victory, all the research confirms it and there is no need for them to come. "The parliamentary majority sees that they are losing and that is why they are trying to replace part of the votes," he stated.
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