(1) the average score on a scale of 1 to 5 for the claim ‘participants in the elections can
participate freely and without pressure’ is 3.80 or, as a percentage, 65% of citizens gave it a
score of four or five, as opposed to 14% of citizens who gave it a one or two.
(2) the average score on a scale of 1 to 5 for the claim ‘suffrage of political parties and other
participants in the elections are protected by legal order’ is 3.62 or, as a percentage, 61% of
citizens gave it a score of four or five, as opposed to 17% of citizens who gave it a one or two;
(3) the average score on a scale of 1 to 5 for the claim ‘Election Administration in Serbia
(Republic Electoral Commission, city and municipal electoral commissions, polling boards)
solve election disputes initiated by election contestants without discrimination and in
accordance with the law’ is 3.48 or, as a percentage, 55% of citizens gave it a score of four or
five, as opposed to 20% of citizens who gave it a one or two;
(4) the average score on a scale of 1 to 5 for the claim ‘Administrative and Constitutional
courts act independently and solve election disputes initiated by participants in the elections
professionally and without discrimination’ is 3.31 or, as a percentage, 47% of citizens gave it a
score of four or five, as opposed to 22% of citizens who gave a one or two.
Chart 4.3.5.2. Evaluation of protecting the vote and election dispute resolution in passive suffrage
(in %)100
47
The Administrative and Constitutional Court are
independent and adjudicate election-related disputes
brought by political parties and other groups contesting
the election professionally and without discrimination
31
22
55
The Serbian electoral administration adjudicates electionrelated disputes brought by political parties and other
groups contesting the election without discrimination and
in compliance with the law
25
20
61
Electoral rights of political parties and other groups
contesting the election are safeguarded by law
22
17
65
Political parties can participate in elections freely and
without pressure
21
14
Good
Moderately
Poor
The synthetic indicator is made of four above-mentioned claims, and based on the findings
obtained, it can be concluded that the majority of the population holds the view that the
process of election dispute resolution in suffrage is good, while 13% of citizens have a negative
view, alongside 29% of citizens with a neutral attitude to this process. Citizens over 50, with
primary school education, coming from Belgrade, satisfied with their standard and the
100The
responses from those citizens who had an attitude were presented; there were between 93% and 97% of them respectively,
depending on the claim.
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