The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) within its competences, and in the context of the legality of the elections in Nikšić, monitored changes in the voter list on a daily basis, and activated the AFIS system for the territory of the municipality of Nikšić, which has never happened before in connection with local elections, it was announced. is today from the MUP.
"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. The problem of those registered in the voter list, and in the context of citizenship or residence, is an inherited problem. An orderly register of citizens' residence is the basis for an organized voter list. In this sense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has completed the process of drafting the Draft Amendments to the Law on Citizens' Residence Registers and carries out the activities of the Council for the Control of the Voter List," the Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a statement.
They added that 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. Regarding the constant calls that the voter list also includes persons who have the citizenship of another country and vote on the territory of that other country, we must emphasize that the submitters of such proposals and initiatives do not know very well jurisdiction of the MUP. If it is not a matter of ignorance of jurisdiction, then it is a matter of bad intentions. Maybe someone imagines that it is enough to be in possession of some lists, which are obtained from "anonymous" sources, and that "someone there" with one click, lump-sum 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 deal with whether and how certain persons were registered in the voter list, and not only after the elections on August 30 last year, but also how do they know who these persons would potentially vote for in Montenegro? After receiving information about the possible existence of a person with dual citizenship, the Ministry of Interior, within its competences, in a timely manner, sent a request to verify this information with the competent institutions of the Republic of Serbia." they said from the MUP.
From that government department, they said that they are aware of the fact that in the voter list there is a considerable number of citizens for whom the basis of registration is invalid.
"But any deletion from the voter list will be done in accordance with the law. 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 list, regardless of whether it's about people who have residence or citizenship in Luxembourg, Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Australia," the MUP statement concludes.
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