CRTA (Centre for Research, Transparency and Accountability)

A domestic observation mission that at the 2022 elections recorded violations of ballot secrecy at 14 per cent of polling stations, and in 2023 concluded that organised voter migration decisively affected the outcome of the Belgrade elections; of its 11 criminal complaints from 2023, none has led to an indictment. At the 2026 elections it recorded ballot photographing at 48 per cent of the polling stations observed, and its observers were attacked and harassed; Brnabić accused it of ‘partisan behaviour’.

Affairs

• Attacks on students and journalists in the Bor local elections: As an observer mission, it reported on the attacks in Bor, in which one of its own observers was also injured
• SNS bots and who organises them: Observer mission's account suspended after bot attack (January 2026)
• Irregularities in the 2022 elections: It recorded serious violations at 5 percent of polling stations and filed seven complaints with the police over vote buying and the “Bulgarian train”
• Irregularities in the 2023 elections: It concluded that organised voter migration decisively affected the Belgrade elections; the complaints did not lead to an indictment
• Irregularities in the 2026 elections: It recorded more than 650 abuses of public office and ballots being photographed at 48% of polling stations
• Police and bikers without number plates at the Kosjerić elections: It observed the elections in Kosjerić, concluded that the police had shown bias, and filed criminal complaints against the polling station committee
• Attacks by thugs and vote buying in the Kula elections: As an observer mission, it recorded the organised transport of voters to Kula, suspicions of vote buying and attacks from the stadium
• „Safe votes“ and jobs in the public sector: It concluded that pressure on voters is constant; a 2022 survey found that 14% of citizens had been under pressure
• Anti-money laundering administration ran checks on journalists and NGOs: On the Administration's list
• REM, RTS and state money for the media: It published an analysis: the authorities took 93% of the airtime given to political actors in the news programmes of RTS, Pink, Prva, Happy and B92
• Students as “terrorists”: a campaign by the authorities and tabloids