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Long-term concerns related to the accuracy of the voter list, especially due to deceased and the people of Montenegro undermine the public confidence in the Poslička listing process, the Observation Mission of the Parliamentary Council of Europe (PSSE) in the final monitoring of parliamentary elections. In Montenegro on June 11, 2023. The author of the report is Reinhold Lopatka, and the document will be before the Prophets of the PSSA next week in Strasbourg.
As evaluated, technical preparations for the elections on June 11 were performed efficiently and according to the determined deadlines.
"Sessions of the DIK were open to observers and the media, and the decisions were published, which increased the national level. The MEC generally performed its duties efficiently, but sometimes transparency at the municipal level," said the report.
It is added that the activities of the education of the voters implemented by the DIC were limited.
"DIK has given the lower level commissions to make polling stations affordable for people with disabilities, but on the day of the election noted that they were generally not respected," said the report.
"The polling list includes 542,468 voters. Voters could check their data from the Ministry of the Interior. The right to voter lists has a wide range of stakeholders, but the MUP has not received any residence lengths to be qualified to be qualified to be qualified to be qualified to be qualified It is contrary to international standards for voting, "the report is stated.
It is estimated that there is still long-term concerns regarding the accuracy of the voter list, especially in relation to persons living in the list, which, as they say, reduces the public confidence in the voter registration framework.
"In an inclusive way, the DIC registered a total of 1,133 candidates on 15 lists, voters can sign only one list. The process of signing is subject to abuse and does not provide integrity", rated in the report.
It is added that concerns about the practice of political parties used by voter data and counterfeiting signatures of support to their list of candidates were present during the elections.
The voters were, as they could check out online if they were involved in the DIK database as a support list of candidates, but only after the SEC confirms lists.
"This does not provide a timeline and efficient remedy," said the report.
SEC also expressed concern over time constraints and logistics challenges during the implementation of the signature verification process, which deteriorated by submitting most of the list at the last minute.
The minority candidates were, as stated, are well represented on the main candidate lists.
"Preferential rules apply to the registration of candidate lists representing national minorities, but the lack of clarity in terms of criteria for the status of a national minority for the list creates uncertainty.
Furthermore, while preferential rules aim to protect national minorities, the provisions are open to abuse by candidates in order to easily present in parliament and access to public funding, "the report is stated.
They say that most of previous recommendations relating to the campaign financing remain unresolved and there are inadequate mechanisms for efficient verification of donations or expenditure verification.
"APC, which is responsible for monitoring the campaign financing, has timely published campaign financing reports for competitors. However, the costs incurred before the registration of candidates, personal campaigns and Google ADS are not monitored.
The third party campaign is prohibited, but the law does not provide for sanctions. Overall, the regulatory framework does not provide transparency, integrity and responsibility of the campaign financing, "the report is stated.
The use of administrative resources in the campaign is prohibited by law, but, as warns can be easily bypassed.
"Numerous public contracts were concluded in the election period. There was a clear difference in the campaign between the role of some candidates who were also high officials,
including their social networking activities. The Parliamentary Assembly recommends Montenegrin authorities to eliminate all the shortcomings and problems observed during this election observation, "said the report.
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