Vucic, Mecacci discuss ODIHR recommendations on electoral process

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he had had an open discussion with the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Matteo Mecacci on Wednesday about ODIHR recommendations for advancement of the electoral process.

In an Instagram post, Vucic said the meeting with Mecacci, who he noted was "well-versed on our situation, which he has been monitoring since as early as 2012," had addressed all aspects of the recommendations as well as potential solutions for individual outstanding issues, which he said would "contribute to an atmosphere of greater mutual trust as well as greater responsibility of all actors."

"I noted that democracy, as an ever-developing process, always leaves space for improvement in all fields of importance for citizens, including for advancement of the electoral process as the most important foundation for the expression of the voters' free will," Vucic wrote.