From Brussels Straight Into a Campaigning Frenzy - European Western Balkans
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From Brussels straight into a campaigning frenzy - European Western Balkans
Local elections are being held on Sunday in Zaječar and Kosjerić. There is hardly to find a government official who hasn’t been in these two towns in eastern and western Serbia over the past month. In exchange for a few shots of rakija, hosts have been promised roads, tractors, higher pensions, investments— all from the positions of ministers, state secretaries, or presidents. Of course, along with the invitation to support the Serbian Progressi…
The Serbian towns of Zaječar and Kosjerić will hold local elections on Sunday. These will be the first since student protests erupted following a deadly train accident at Novi Sad's train station last November. The NGO Crta has warned of dozens of cases of intimidation and violence, including against journalists.
The campaign for the regular local elections to be held in Zaječar and Kosjerić on 8 June has shown that there have been no positive changes in the electoral conditions, despite the authorities' attempts to simulate a commitment to improving the electoral process and implementing the ODIHR recommendations, concludes the Report on Long-term Observation of the Crta Observation Mission. All long-known patterns of electoral corruption, abuse of inst…
The Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA) announced today that the organization's observers during three weeks in Zaječar and Kosjerić noted
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