Andreas Schieder MEP told N1 on Tuesday that European Parliament Rapporteur for Serbia Vladimir Bilcik had to admit that there was a large number of irregularities in the December 17 elections.

Schieder was part of the European Parliament observation mission at the December 17 elections in Serbia. His and the views of the international observers differed from those of Bilcik who downplayed the irregularities and overall election conditions.

Vladimir Bilcik had to admit that there were many irregularities in the end, Schieder said adding Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Ana Brnabic were wrong to attack the observers. Those attacks showed that the issues raised were right because there were irregularities, he said.

Schieder said Brnabic’s accusations in her letter to the leader of the Party of European Socialists were nonsense and added that he was astounded by the media attacks against him following Vucic’s news conference. According to him, an international investigation into the election irregularities is possible only in cooperation with the Serbian authorities.