The executive director of the Center for Democratic Transition (CDT), Dragan Koprivica, assessed that there is a reason for the Constitutional Court, based on a possible complaint by political parties, to cancel the election process in Savnik in its entirety, and not just in two polling stations.
In Colors of the Morning on TV Vijesti, Koprivica said that it is time for the parties to start the procedure for the Constitutional Court to assess the legality of the entire election process in Šavnik.
"There is a legal basis for that in our legislation, we think there would be a reason for the Constitutional Court to take this seriously, and we think that this electoral process does not actually enable the full realization of citizens' electoral rights," Koprivica said.
He says that another possible solution is for the Municipal Electoral Commission to call for elections in two electoral places, but that it is hard to believe that this will happen.
"The basic principle of elections is urgency, we don't have to explain that urgency is not for a year and a half. That makes the election process completely meaningless and that is one fact we certainly have. Secondly, people in Šavnik 2022 declared about some programs, some parties... Now the political scene is totally the opposite. Look at the parliament then and now, you will see that the distribution of forces is absolutely different... Citizens do not know what to vote for," Koprivica points out.
He says that the Constitutional Court, "in certain moments when the system has failed", must take responsibility and "return everything to legal, alternative to what the politicians are offering us".
"Here, it is also possible that, since the voter's list in Šavnik is closed, a thousand people can now be transferred to Andrijevica and be registered in two places, and formally and legally vote in two elections. This is absolutely not allowed," noted Koprivica.
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