The Serbian Democratic Party is considering the possibility of boycotting the repeated elections for the president of the Republic of Srpska, which should be held on February 8 in 136 polling stations in 17 local communities in the RS.
This was announced today at the SDS press conference, where party representatives said that the reason for considering such a decision is the Rulebook of the Central Election Commission for repeated elections “which expands the possibility of electoral theft”.
Želimir Nešković, vice president of the SDS, stated that the final decision of this party will be made after the CEC’s response to the party’s letters and complaints.
“The bottom line is that the CEC Rulebook, which was adopted on January 8, gives the presidents of city election commissions the will to fill election committees even without SDS members. Therefore, it may happen that SDS is left without its members in a large number of polling stations. This creates an even bigger space for electoral theft and altering the electoral will of citizens,” said Nešković.
In addition, as he said, the CEC does not allow the accreditation of new observers, which is also problematic for the SDS.
Nešković warned that the goal of the Central Election Commission of BiH should be that the previous elections be held in a regular and fair manner, and that they should return to saying the voter’s name out loud at the polling stations.
“That’s how it was, but the CEC of Bosnia and Herzegovina changed it two years ago. We think that it was this change that led to voting in someone else’s name. We are asking for that to change,” said Nešković.
Member of the Main Board of the SDS and MP Nedeljko Glamocak claims that the CEC of BiH “does not respect the Election Law of BiH, because it prevents the SDS from having its members on the polling committees in repeated elections”.
“They did that with the Rulebook, and no rulebook can be part of the Electoral Act, which states that parties participating in elections must have their own member in the electoral committee,” stated Glamočak.
Commenting on the decision of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the unconstitutionality of the previous Government of the RS led by Savo Minić, Glamočak reminded that the SDS was warned of an institutional crisis when, after the verdict, Milorad Dodik was proposed as a representative for the composition of the Government of the RS.
“We have now entered a spiral of problems. Here, the launch of the constitutionality of the new RS Government is announced. In SNSD, they obviously think “after me the flood”, because there is no other explanation for what they are doing,” added Glamočak.
