Source: "Blic"
Sabic criticizes Ciplic
In every case two criminal acts are committed - unauthorized processing of personal data and forgery
When it comes to elections for minority councils, in addition to problems with the Bosniak Council, the way of forming separate electoral rolls for the election of each of the national councils is equally interesting. Due to the instructions on the procedure of registration in the electoral roll compiled by the Ministry of Human and Minority Issues, a large number of fake entries in electoral rolls have been noticed, claims the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance Rodoljub Sabic.
- In this regard I must say that it is a complete falsehood that the Minister Ciplic has, at any time, and certainly not as he has declared "on several occasions’’, explained the procedure of registration in electoral rolls. After all, there is no need for something like that. The procedure established by the law is perfectly clear and there is nothing to be explained. The procedure established by law has not been the source of any problems.
According to his explanation the instruction, i.e. instructions on the procedure of registration in a special electoral roll for national minorities is the source of the problem.
- This instruction has given the opportunity to anyone to submit "on behalf of citizens" a virtually unlimited number of applications for registration in the special electoral roll, without identity check and without a special power of attorney. It has been obvious from the start that with this instruction the door to potential abuses has very carelessly been opened wide, and this has been proven in practice - says Sabic.
The Commissioner argues that "there is no doubt that various activists have registered a large number of citizens in special electoral rolls without their knowledge and against their will’’.
- It is difficult to determine the exact number, but in any case we are not talking about per mill, but about a significantly higher number, Minister Ciplic says. For example, only in the Municipality of New Belgrade in a separate electoral roll of members of the Bosniak national minority, at least 15 to 20 percent of the enrolled is, to say the least, problematic. But even if it were a question of per mill, no one, and certainly not the Minister for Human Rights, should underestimate that. First, because the registration in the special electoral roll actually represents processing of personal data defined as "especially sensitive" data under the law, which implies a special attitude and protection, which are more than obviously missing. And second, because behind every such case stands not only gross violation of citizens' rights and violation of national feeling because they have been entered in a roll of the minority to which they do not belong, and also, as a rule, the perpetration of two criminal acts, unauthorized processing of personal data under Article 146 of the Criminal Code and forgery under Article 355 of the Criminal Code – says Sabic.
Antrfile: Zukorlic in Mecca on the Bosnian Council
Chief Mufti of the Islamic Community in Serbia (ICinS) Muamer Zukorlic is participating in an international conference in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Muslim World League Rabita, ICinS has announced. Zukorlic has informed the participants at the conference about "threatening to the religious and national rights of the Muslims and the violation of the electoral will of the Bosniaks in the elections for the National Council of Bosniaks by the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, and he has received the support of the Secretary General Dr. Abdullah bin Abdul Mohsin Al-Turki, it is said in the statement.
