21 February 2020

112th Session of the Republic Electoral Commission

At the 112th session, held on 21 February 2020, the Republic Electoral Commission considered and adopted the Proposal of the Decision amending and modifying the Rules of Procedure of the Republic Electoral Commission.

The amendments and modifications to the Rules of Procedure allow for the broadcasting of the Commission sessions and press conferences on the Commission’s website and the media to take over the audio and video signal provided by the Commission.

The Commission went on to adopt the Decision on the establishment of working groups of the Republic Electoral Commission.

The session was chaired by Vladimir Dimitrijevic, Chairperson of the Republic Electoral Commission.

6 February 2020

111th Session of the Republic Electoral Commission

At the 111th session, held on 6 February 2020, the Republic Electoral Commission adopted the Decision on the allocation of a term of office of National Council member for the purpose of filling a vacant seat at the National Council of the Albanian National Minority.

The National Council of the Albanian National Minority informed the Commission that at its third regular session held on 5 December 2019 it had noted that conditions have been met to terminate the terms of office of National Council members Arber Pajaziti, Vjollca Aliu, Fejran Shemsedini and Nezaqete Isahu before the expiry of the term they were elected as they had not attended National Council sessions for over a year. Pursuant to Article 41 of the Law on National Councils of National Minorities, the Commission adopted the Decree on the allocation of terms of office of National Council members for the purpose of filling the vacant seats at the National Council of the Albanian National Minority to Shkelzen Hiseini, Saranda Latifi, Shefket Shefkija and Shefatt Ademi from the Electoral List ALTERNATIVE FOR CHANGE (AFC) - SHQIPRIM ARIFI ALTERNATIVA PЁR NDRYSHIM (APN) – SHQIPRIM ARIFI.

The REC members also adopted the Decision on the organization and conduct of training of instructors for work in the expanded composition of polling boards, Decision amending the Decision on the organization and conduct of trainings for work in the standing composition of polling boards and the Decision on the relocation of the electoral material from the direct elections for members of national councils of national minorities.

The Republic Electoral Commission went on to adopt decisions awarding public procurement contracts RIK JN 1/19; RIK JN 2/19; RIK JN 3/19 and RIK JN 4/19.

The session was chaired by Vladimir Dimitrijevic, Chairperson of the Republic Electoral Commission.

24 January 2020

110th Session of the Republic Electoral Commission

At the 110th session, held on 24 January, the Republic Electoral Commission adopted the Decision on the designation of a printing house for the printing of ballots and other electoral material for the conduct of the parliamentary elections in 2020, designating Official Gazette Public Enterprise in Belgrade as the printing house for the purpose. The REC also adopted the Decision on establishing the colour of the ballot and the colour of the control card to test the integrity of the ballot box for the voting in the parliamentary elections in 2020.

The National Council of the German National Minority informed the Commission on 14 May 2019 that at its session held on 30 April 2019 it had noted the termination of the term of office of National Council member before the expiry of the term he was elected for to the President of the National Council Antun Beck due to death. Pursuant to Article 41 of the Law on National Councils of National Minorities, the Commission adopted the Decree on the allocation of term of office of National Council member for the purpose of filling the vacant seat at the National Council of the German National Minority to Antun Renc from the Electoral List “Gerhard” Danube Germans – Together, Antun Beck.

The National Council of the Bosniak National Minority informed the Commission on 25 December 2019 that at its session held on 19 December 2019 it had noted the resignation i.e. termination of the term of office of National Council member Prof. Dr Sead Semsovic due to resignation. Pursuant to Article 41 of the Law on National Councils of National Minorities, the Commission adopted the Decree on the allocation of term of office of National Council member for the purpose of filling the vacant seat at the National Council of the Bosniak National Minority to Mirfat Tahirovic from the Electoral List “SELF-DETERMINATION – Dr Sulejman Ugljanin”.

The Chairperson of the Republic Electoral Commission Vladimir Dimitrijevic informed the attending that trainings for instructors who are in turn to train the members of the polling boards were held in the course of December 2019.  A Training Handbook for work in the polling boards was also compiled. “This was the first time that a publication of this kind was compiled containing a detailed explanation of the work procedure of the polling board members from the handover of electoral material before the voting to the handover of the electoral material after the voting and ascertainment of the voting results. The Handbook is accompanied by a Workbook, Exercises for logistic-computing control of the results entered in the control form and completion of minutes of the work of the polling board”, Dimitrijevic explained, adding that a Guidebook for the assessment of accessibility of polling stations for persons with disabilities was also printed. REC member Vesna Mizdrak added that expert teams were set up in 161 local self-government units, 834 of which are assessing the physical and communication accessibility of the polling stations. Of the total number of expert team members, 132 are persons with disabilities

The session was chaired by Vladimir Dimitrijevic, Chairperson of the Republic Electoral Commission.