Even yesterday, the Šavnik Municipal Election Commission (MEC) did not make a decision on repeating the elections at two polling stations, the building of the Municipal Assembly (SO) of Šavnik and the village of Kruševice.
Once again, members of the MEC from the opposition abstained, while members of the commission from the ruling coalition of the Democratic Party of Socialists and Social Democrats (DPS-SD) were in favor.
"The members of the MEC from among the opposition electoral lists did not vote for the proposed agenda because the conditions for the legal conduct of elections at those polling stations were not provided. In accordance with the current legal regulations, the right to vote and to be elected as a councilor belongs to a voter who, in addition to other conditions, resides in the municipality, therefore the voter loses that right if his residence in the municipality in which the elections are held ceases," reads the press release signed by opposition MEC members Mira Vuković, Nenad Marković, Milijana Bulajić and Vukoman Krsmanović.
They point out that the first condition for the legal conduct of elections at the mentioned two polling stations is for the Police Directorate to establish through a field check for which voters at those two polling stations registration of residence was carried out in an illegal manner, and whether a final decision on deregistration of residence was made for those voters. in Savnik.
As they state in the announcement, a large number of voters registered their residence from Šavnik, "so they would end up in a situation where voters, who on election day, do not have a registered residence in the municipality of Šavnik, participate in the elections".
"Citizens of Šavnik have the right to know which voters are registered in the voter list based on an illegal registration of residence, and which voters have deregistered their residence from the municipality of Šavnik, voted in the previous parliamentary elections in other municipalities, and are still in the locked voter list of the municipality of Šavnik , and they intend to decide who will exercise power in Šavnik", the press release states.
They remind that according to the Law on Voters' Lists, a voter can be entered in the voter's list only once and at one polling station of only one local self-government unit, and that now "we have a situation where more than 200 voters who are registered in the voter's list of Šavnik have been copied to more polling stations in more local self-government units, and thus they are privileged because they have the right to vote and be elected in more local self-government units, which is illegal, illegal and an absolute absurdity".
"At the session of the Commission, the question arose as to whether the Assembly of the Municipality of Šavnik, whose mandate expired in 2022, had a legal basis to pass the Decision on dismissal, as well as the Decision on the appointment of the Municipal Election Commission, at the session held on 20.03.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX ", concludes the press release.
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