New DSS: SNS Sent Obrenovac Parking Staff to Sign Petition
New DSS says the local SNS branch in Obrenovac sent employees of the public parking company to sign for the Authentic Right list, and claims a similar push happened in Stari Grad.
The New Democratic Party of Serbia (New DSS) accused the local branch of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in Obrenovac today of organizing a push to send employees of the public utility company (JKP) Obrenovac “Parking Service” to sign, in large numbers, in support of the “Authentic Right, Dr. Milos Jovanovic” electoral list. The party also said a similar situation played out in the Stari Grad municipality, where SNS members reportedly showed up, though without any public company markings.
The statement was carried by the Beta news agency on Wednesday afternoon, September 16, and picked up by N1 (5:51 p.m.) and Danas (6:48 p.m.). This is the first time we have reported on the allegation.
“Through this brazen attempt by local Progressives in Obrenovac to contaminate our signature collection process for the electoral list, the current regime is confirming its rotten strategy, stopping at nothing to strip the entire election process of meaning,” the New DSS statement reads.
According to the party, Parking Service employees were instructed to sign up in large numbers, though the statement does not specify how many people were involved or who exactly gave the order. In Stari Grad, New DSS claims, SNS activists showed up without wearing any public company insignia, but with the same purpose: collecting signatures for the same list.
Who is behind the Authentic Right list
The “Authentic Right” list is a coalition of New DSS and the Monarchists movement (Movement for the Kingdom of Serbia), formed under the umbrella of the Serbian Coalition NADA. New DSS says the list has so far won public backing from a group of public intellectuals, including academician Matija Beckovic, academician Kosta Cavoski, historian Nemanja Devic, as well as Bojan Dimitrijevic and Dragomir Andjelkovic.
In its statement, the party goes a step further than the accusation itself, framing the alleged move by local Progressives as evidence in its own favor:
“This is further proof that Authentic Right is gaining strength, and that the outgoing government is rattled, yet aware that only with the votes of citizens on the right of the ideological spectrum can it come to a change of power and a change of policy. We have been backed by people like academician Matija Beckovic, academician Kosta Cavoski, historian Nemanja Devic, Bojan Dimitrijevic and Dragomir Andjelkovic, but there will also be potential surprises,” New DSS said.
The party announced that after submitting its signatures, it will check every signature and every name individually, and it called on its monitors at the signing locations to be maximally attentive in order to prevent any possible abuse of the process.
No response from SNS or the public company
None of the available reports include a statement from the Serbian Progressive Party or from the JKP Obrenovac “Parking Service” regarding this accusation. As of publication, no response has arrived from either side, not from the local branch in Obrenovac nor from the SNS party leadership. It remains to be seen whether, and how, they will respond officially.
The certification and submission of electoral lists for the upcoming election, scheduled for October 25, 2026, currently requires every list to collect the prescribed number of citizen signatures supporting its participation. That part of the process, field collection of signatures, is exactly where political actors typically trade accusations in the weeks before official certification, and New DSS’s statement raises the question of how willing local structures of power are to get involved in that process on behalf of one list, even through employees of public companies.
