Coalition’s observers, 99% of them, accessed the polling stations without any hindrance, while 1% of observers had a problem entering polling stations because of insufficient communication between certain Local Election Commissions and the Central Election Commission, but also because of the problem with accreditation. Coalition is working with the Central and Local Election Commissions to resolve these problems.
All the members of the polling station committees were present at 85% of the polling stations at 6 a.m. The polling material was missing at 6% of polling stations, which shows that election administration was not prepared well enough for the Local elections.
Until 10 a.m., Coalition received 27 reports about the critical situations, based on which observers submitted 23 complaints into the minutes of work of the polling station committees. The complaints were submitted due to banning of observation, the delays with the opening of polling stations, irregularities in the voting process, persuading voters to vote for a particular option and because of the systemic violations of the Law by the polling station committees.
During Saturday and today until 10 a.m., citizens reported 16 cases of violating electoral silence, which are mainly related to political agitation to vote certain political subject, Facebook advertising and placarding during the night.
The Coalition calls on citizens to vote and use their right to vote, and the political subjects to respect the electoral silence and the BiH Election Law.
We remind that Local elections are being observed by 2700 civil, non-partisan observers of the Coalition „Pod lupom“ at over 2500 polling stations, 142 Local Election Commissions and has 60 mobile teams across the country. Citizens can report any irregularities to the Coalition “Pod lupom” via free phone number 080 05 05 05 or at the following link: www.podlupom.org/neregulatnosti.
The next press conference will be held at 10 p.m., at which the Coalition will inform the public about voting process and closing of the polling stations.
For any additional information please contact the public relations coordinator of the Coalition „Pod lupom“, Jovana Kljajić via email pr@podlupom.org or at 033 268 160 and 065 252 016.
