(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. 62

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