RIK questions the signatures of the “Ćale ovo je za tebe” list — the legal validity of 125 statements challenged

Serbia’s Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) debated tonight the legal validity of part of the support signatures of the electoral list “Ćale ovo je za tebe – Petar Đurić premijer Srbije” for the snap parliamentary elections of 25 October, a list RIK had proclaimed on 26 September, as the newspaper Danas reports.

The objection against the list was filed by voter Dragan Urošev from Belgrade, who expressed doubts about the legal validity of part of the support statements. RIK deputy member and authorised proposer Miloš Srećković said there is suspicion that the list does not have the required number of valid statements, since of the 10,007 statements RIK had verified, 125 are suspected of not being legally valid, Danas writes.

Srećković nevertheless stressed that the objector presents no concrete evidence for his suspicions of other irregularities on which RIK could act. According to him, RIK should establish that the electoral list has shortcomings that constitute an obstacle to its proclamation.

At 15:00, RIK members put forward a proposal to add to the agenda the verification of the voter certifications of the list “Ćale ovo je za tebe – Petar Đurić premijer Srbije”, a proposal that was not adopted, Danas reports.

The development comes 25 days before the snap parliamentary elections of 25 October, for which RIK has so far proclaimed a series of electoral lists, among them the Student List “Students Win” and the government list “United Serbia”. Today’s objection could put the fate of Petar Đurić’s list back in question if RIK accepts the remarks about the 125 statements.