I would turn the concept around a bit and start with a retrospective to make it clear to all of us what this process is and what is happening around it.
“Until the elections in 2006, in our country there was a different law for each type of election. At the initiative of MOST in cooperation with foreign and domestic institutions, we managed to synchronize and synergize the legislation and make one of those laws and named the Electoral Code.
We are now 2021 and that election code has suffered a lot. More than 70 percent of its content has changed. We have a practice, if something more than 30 percent changes, we actually need to write a new one. Writing a new code is a technical matter.
Institutional capacity increases and thus the political will for inclusiveness of a process. It is a benefit of growing and developing. And I can say that we have institutions that can respond to this.
I am not saying that we should not monitor the process, we must always be careful, but we have threats of misinformation that can affect the election process and seriously damage the process and reduce its confidence. We have the same with the hybrid threats and malicious interference of other countries in the election process. The process as a process is no longer threatened. We see what is happening and there is transparency. But what is difficult to grasp and see will be a huge threat to the elections. “When we summarize things, we conclude that we are growing, things are developing, in recent years they are going in the right direction, but we need to continue working and have patience,” said MOST Executive Director Darko Aleksov at the panel discussion of CIVIL on topic “What laws, such elections”
