Around 48.000 citizens of Montenegro have not replaced their ID cards even after the legal deadline, while deceased persons, as well as voters over 100 years of age, are still recorded in the registers.
According to data presented in "Colors of Morning" by State Secretary at the Ministry of Internal Affairs Novica Obradović, the voter register still includes 173 deceased persons, as well as 129 voters over a century old, including three people born in 1914.
Obradović stated that the amendments to the Law on Permanent and Temporary Residence Registers are aimed at harmonizing records with the actual situation, but also at strengthening control of the voter register, which has been the subject of political disputes for years.
The announced measures include mandatory deregistration of residence for citizens who stay abroad for an extended period of time, database matching, and field checks conducted by the police to determine the actual place of residence of citizens.
"If our citizens all respected the law to its full capacity, if they fulfilled all their legal obligations in the right way, then they would be able to protect their rights in the best possible way," said Obradović.
He appealed to all those leaving the country for longer than 90 days to report and state the reason.
"...So that we don't end up in a situation where we recognize them as dead. We appeal to all our citizens to report the death of a member of their household, a member of their family. Statistical data is very important. That's how we create policies," he said.
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