2023-12-26 20:19:00
The Serbian opposition announced Tuesday that it would boycott the new vote scheduled for December 30 in 30 of the country’s 8,000 offices, judging that this would not be enough to make it accept the overall result of the legislative elections of December 17, won according to it fraudulently. by the nationalist right.
“The elections that will be repeated in a number of polling stations cannot undo the fraud or correct the injustice that occurred on December 17. This is why we will not participate in the repeat election “, said the coalition “Serbia against violence” in a statement.
According to her, “it will be of no use to vote when MPs are on hunger strike due to proven fraud, political dissidents arrested and students beaten by the police and apprehended.”
Questioning the results of the December 17 vote, seven members of the opposition are currently on hunger strike, while daily demonstrations are organized in front of the Electoral Commission.
According to official results, the SNS (nationalist right) party of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic won 46% of the votes in the legislative elections, compared to 23.5% for the opposition coalition.
But “Serbia Against Violence” denounced fraud, claiming in particular that Serb voters from neighboring Bosnia had been allowed to vote illegally in Belgrade.
International observers, including those from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), have also reported “irregularities”, notably “vote buying” and “ballot box stuffing”.
Denouncing fraud, opposition demonstrators attempted to enter Belgrade town hall on Sunday evening, breaking windows. The police repelled them with pepper spray.
On Monday, protesters blocked arteries in the capital demanding a review of the electoral lists, and threatened to continue their action on Wednesday if the authorities did not accede to their demands.
12/26/2023 19:17:44 – Belgrade (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
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