The State Election Commission today reviewed the last group of complaints about electoral process that on behalf of MANS submitted three political parties, and all of them were rejected by the majority of eight votes in favor and two votes against.
During today’s meeting of the SEC when hundreds of complaints were reviewed, not even on one discussion took place, just was stated a filing number of the complaints and who submitted them.
In that way, the SEC continued with catastrophic practice that was used during the past few years, to reject complaints based on political grounds, although they point to serious violations of the Law, voting rights, and electoral procedures.
However, the SEC on today’s session made a speed record in rejection of the complaints, so on average for rejection of the set of complaints they needed just over 14 seconds, actually they rejected in a minute dozens of complaints. This speaks for itself how meaningless is this kind of work by the SEC, the umbrella institution for implementation of the elections, whose main obligation is elections to be fair and honest, and who the essence of the complaints did not even considered.
The way in which the SEC considered the complaints on the electoral process is the past few days, additionally confirms suspicion that the SEC is an active participant in cover up of the electoral irregularities and voting fraud, instead to ensure that voting rules apply equally to all, and that those who violate them bear specific consequences.
All mentioned evidence that MANS was correct when a few months ago while drafting electoral legislation in the Working group for building confidence in the electoral process, demanded from the State Election Commission to be a professional and not to include people who have any kind of political background. Only the SEC like that can ensure that the election procedures are respected, and that the hundreds of election irregularities get their legal epilogue in accordance with the law.
On all decisions by which the SEC rejected complaints on the electoral process, ending with those which are considered today, MANS will through three political parties file appeals to the Constitutional Court, so we can exhaust all legal remedies offered by the domestic legislation to protect the electoral process from abuses. We hope that the Constitutional Court will find the strength to rise above judges’ political interests who are its members, and that trapped institution would ensure that the law and election procedures are respected and enforced, and those who violated them to bear specific consequences.
MANS
