Voter turnout in Niksic was 42.8% by 6:30pm at local elections that are specific because only the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and Socialdemocrats (SD) participate in the process.
“These are data based on 89% polling stations,” the president of the Municipal Electoral Commission Srdjan Spajic said.
The opposition has been boycotting the voting but it has taken part in observing the elections – 67 out of 138 election committee chairmen at polling stations are opposition representatives.
For the time being, there have been no major irregularities at the polling stations and the elections are going as planned, Spajic told CdM.
The total of 58,486 citizens has voting right in Niksic.
By 9am, 11am, 1pm, 3pm and 5pm, voter turnout was 9%, 20%, 31%, 35% and 39% respectively.
By comparison, in the parliamentary elections held on 16 October 2016, the voter turnout in Niksic was 14% by 10am, whereas 29% and 46.5% citizens voted by noon and 3pm respectively.
Mobile teams of the Centre for Democratic Transition (CDT) are visiting polling stations.
“For the time being, we can say that voting at the polling stations we have visited places was without incidents, devices for voter electronic identification are functioning and there are no delays in the process,” executive director of the NGO, Milica Kovacevic, wrote in the CDT Viber chat group.
“Communication among the members of committees in these polling stations has been fair and professional,” said Dragan Koprivica.
In these elections, CDT has no observers in election committees. They are just visiting the polling stations in order to get a picture on the electoral process.
All 138 polling stations have been open, although voting was temporary delayed at several polling stations.
Among others, at the polling station in the Luka Simonovic elementary school the voting was delayed because the electoral committee president Spasoje Tomic (a New Serb Democracy (NOVA) representative) complained about promotional billboards being in front of the school.
