Criminal charges against members of RIK

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will raise an inditement against the members of the Serbian Electoral Commission (RIK) and Predrag Marković, speaker of the National Parliament, for severe violations of the Law on Referendum and people’s initiatives, said Čedomir Jovanović, president of LDP, at a press conference.

Jovanović explained that RIK granted the LDP and other parties of the anti-referendum bloc the right to participate in only 1% of the election committees (polling stations), “which means that the Referendum will be legal in only 1% of the election committees, while it will be illegal and therefore unacceptable in 99% of the polling stations.” The president of LDP said that the anti-referendum parties will not accept the offer to participate in only a fraction of the election committees. However, 20.000 party activists will stand in front of all the polling stations in Serbia and follow the voter turn-out. “At this point, it is not even probable that the referendum could be accepted as legal,” said Jovanović.

The Civic Alliance of Serbia (GSS) announced that 20.000 activists will stand in front of the polling stations and follow the referendum. “The presence of the opposition’s representatives in elections committees at less than 1% of the polling stations confirms our claims that the Referendum will be falsified. Otherwise, the government in Serbia would not oppose the participation of the opposition parties in the referendum process,” stated a GSS announcement.