The Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that Democratic Party of Socialists MP Andrija Nikolić did not provide any evidence that more than 200 people from Trebinje were registered on the voter list in Nikšić.
Nikolić announced on Sunday that more than 200 people from Trebinje have been registered on the voter list in Nikšić and that he will not allow the opposition's victory in the upcoming local elections to be called into question.
The Ministry of the Interior called Nikolić's claims "speculation" and that "everything else remained just at the level of what was said."
"Certainly, this speculation is irresistibly reminiscent of the one that came from the same address on the eve of election day in Podgorica, on September 29th last year. We would like to remind you that at that time, DPS MP Danijel Živković, 12 hours before the start of election day, submitted a list of 1.910 persons to the Police Directorate who claimed to exercise their right to vote in 3 countries," the statement said.
As stated by this ministry, first the list initially announced by the DPS dropped from 3.300 to 2.300, then from 2.300 to 1.910 persons, and then a detailed check by officials determined that 1.905 out of 1.910 persons were registered on the voter list during the DPS government, that is, that not a single person from the submitted list was registered on the voter list during the mandate of this government.
"At that time, the public was denied a detailed answer as to whether this was a kind of admission of falsification of the voter list, given that the persons on the list were registered in the voter list during the DPS government, and they then claimed that the voter list was reliable, accurate and up-to-date. Finally, the conclusion is that this statement, based on nothing, like the one from September last year, has a short-term pre-election use, given that after the elections in Podgorica we did not record that it was ever mentioned by the same MPs," the Ministry of Interior said in a statement.
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