CRTA: List of ‘sure-fire grassroots votes’ bearing SNS logo and hospital director’s name found at Niš clinical center

A form labeled “sure-fire grassroots votes 2026” was found on the reception desk of the pediatric surgery, orthopedics and traumatology clinic at the University Clinical Center Niš, according to CRTA. The document carried the logo of the Serbian Progressive Party, or SNS, and the name of Milan Lazarević, the institution’s acting director.

The form asked people to provide their full name, date of birth, municipality or city, address from their identity card and telephone number. Its section for the “list collector” identified Lazarević, whose full title was printed on the document.

CRTA said it did not know who had left the form at the desk, described as one of the busiest points in the Niš clinic. Employees told the organization they had previously encountered similar forms of political activity among the institution’s workforce.

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Employees tell us that they had encountered this kind of political activity in the workplace before.

Lazarević became acting director of UKC Niš in May, CRTA said. The organization also identified him as an SNS councillor and chairman of the Niš city board of the Movement for the People and the State. It said he had recently become temporary president of the council of the Faculty of Serbian Studies.

CRTA noted that grassroots vote collection is not new in Serbia, but called the setting unusual because the list appeared inside a health-care institution. It questioned whether doctors and other medical workers might feel pressure to provide political “a favor” to the management, and whether leaving the form there could make employees or members of the public feel obliged to sign up.

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