OSCE again accused of "interfering in elections"

During the repeated voting in Kosovo OSCE officials "created electoral registers, interfered in the work of polling station staff, and openly backed Priština."

Izvor: Tanjug

Wednesday, 20.11.2013.

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FRANKFURT During the repeated voting in Kosovo OSCE officials "created electoral registers, interfered in the work of polling station staff, and openly backed Pristina." This is what Nenad Rikalo, a member of the Kosovo Central Electoral Commission, said on Wednesday. OSCE again accused of "interfering in elections" Rikalo noted that the OSCE was "directly involved in drawing up the electoral roll, in which there are over 1,500 citizens in the four Serb-majority municipalities in northern Kosovo and Metohija who were registered twice." "In northern Kosovska Mitrovica, where local elections were repeated on November 17, there are several hundred voters that were registered twice, but under different identification numbers - from the Serbian and Kosovo documents. Everyone had the right to cast their ballot twice and the OSCE tolerated all that," Rikalo said. The OSCE's decision that the votes from the polling stations in northern Kosovska Mitrovica be counted in Kosovo Polje, near Pristina, was "politically motivated," he said in an interview published in the Wednesday issue of the Frankfurt-based Serbian language daily Vesti. "They even informed the Commission that mayoral candidates of the Citizens' Initiative 'Serbia, Democracy, Justice' Oliver Ivanovic and the Citizens' Initiative Srpska Krstimir Pantic agreed that the vote-count be done in Kosovo Polje, which is not true," he said. "At the moment when the polls closed, they lied that there is the Commission decision that ballot boxes be transported to Kosovo Polje. I have immediately called the Commission chair (Valdete Daka) who said to me that such a decision was not delivered," he explained. OSCE officials have denied that they interfered in the election process, and said that they gave such a recommendation for security reasons, taking into account that the November 3 elections were halted due to the incidents in which the election materials were destroyed. Tanjug Vesti

OSCE again accused of "interfering in elections"

Rikalo noted that the OSCE was "directly involved in drawing up the electoral roll, in which there are over 1,500 citizens in the four Serb-majority municipalities in northern Kosovo and Metohija who were registered twice."

"In northern Kosovska Mitrovica, where local elections were repeated on November 17, there are several hundred voters that were registered twice, but under different identification numbers - from the Serbian and Kosovo documents. Everyone had the right to cast their ballot twice and the OSCE tolerated all that," Rikalo said.

The OSCE's decision that the votes from the polling stations in northern Kosovska Mitrovica be counted in Kosovo Polje, near Priština, was "politically motivated," he said in an interview published in the Wednesday issue of the Frankfurt-based Serbian language daily Vesti.

"They even informed the Commission that mayoral candidates of the Citizens' Initiative 'Serbia, Democracy, Justice' Oliver Ivanović and the Citizens' Initiative Srpska Krstimir Pantić agreed that the vote-count be done in Kosovo Polje, which is not true," he said.

"At the moment when the polls closed, they lied that there is the Commission decision that ballot boxes be transported to Kosovo Polje. I have immediately called the Commission chair (Valdete Daka) who said to me that such a decision was not delivered," he explained.

OSCE officials have denied that they interfered in the election process, and said that they gave such a recommendation for security reasons, taking into account that the November 3 elections were halted due to the incidents in which the election materials were destroyed.

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