Djilas reveals more false residence registration

Djilas, leader of the Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP), said he would ask the police to investigate the residence registry for that building in the Vozdovac municipality and others that opposition activists have discovered with similar or greater numbers of people registered as resident and eligible to vote in local elections.

Under Serbian law, only people resident in Serbia can vote at local elections, including the vote for the Belgrade City Assembly, but can vote in parliamentary elections. Voters living abroad have to register to vote either in the nearest diplomatic mission or in Serbia.

Djilas said that the building in Presernova street has two owners both of who escorted people to the local police station to register residence, adding that the police knew the building was uninhabitable. He said that those people were registered in 2023 and that they were from the Republika Srpska in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

He also showed pictures of several other buildings in the Serbian capital were more people were registered as resident than can actually live there, including a telephone exchange building on the Belgrade-Zagreb highway and the city Water and Sewer System company headquarters.

“Add it all up and there are tens of thousands of voters,” Djilas said and added that the newly registered voters replaced the deceased on the electoral rolls which is why the number of voters in the city increased by just over 13,000.