Brnabic: Just 20,000 crossed border on election day
N1 Belgrade
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Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said on Wednesday that some 20,000 people crossed Serbia's borders on Sunday.
Reacting to opposition claims of more than 40,000 people being bussed in from neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina to vote in the snap elections, Brnabic told the pro-regime TV Pink that 20,368 people crossed the border on election day.
She said that the people who came to vote from the Republika Srpska are citizens of Serbia and have the right to vote. Under Serbian law, people who have Serbian citizenship but are not resident in the country can vote in presidential and parliamentary elections but not in local elections and they have to register to vote.
Brnabic accused the opposition of preparing protests from the start of the election campaign. "We said all the time that if the voice of the people shows that someone else has their trust we will congratulate them and go into the opposition. The stability of Serbia is the most important thing and it's important for us to hear our people," she said.
The Prime Minister claimed that the opposition had not filed objections to the elections with any of the election commissions.
