Serbia accuses Croatia of interfering in October parliamentary elections

Serbia sent a note of protest to Croatia on Wednesday, condemning as unacceptable what it described as Croatian attempts to exert external influence on the process ahead of the snap parliamentary elections on October 25, as well as Croatian media coverage of the political situation in Serbia.

In its note of protest, the Serbian Foreign Ministry expressed concern over what it described as a one-sided portrayal of the political situation in Serbia and its links to regional stability, CE Report quotes STA.

It stressed that such conduct does not contribute to mutual trust and good-neighbourly relations, Serbian public broadcaster RTS reported.

According to Serbian daily Večernje novosti, Belgrade sent the note of protest to Zagreb over what it described as blatant interference in the elections and increasingly biased reporting in Croatia on Serbia’s domestic political situation.

The pro-government Serbian tabloid Informer, which openly supports the campaign of former Serbian president and current leader of the ruling coalition’s electoral list Aleksandar Vučić, accused Croatian media of constantly focusing on Vučić. It reported that “between August 15 and October 25, as many as 6,282 media reports mentioning him were recorded,” Croatian news agency Hina reported.

In an interview with Serbian television channel B92 on Wednesday evening, Vučić said that no country had interfered so heavily in another country’s elections as Croatia had in Serbia’s. He welcomed the Foreign Ministry’s decision to send a note of protest to Croatia, saying that, in his view, it “might have had to do so a thousand times by now.”

“It is important that it remains on record that we knew Croatia was interfering in our electoral process in the most obvious way,” he added, according to Serbian news agency Tanjug.

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