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Aleksandar Vučić, the president of Serbia, is trying to maintain his importance and role on the international level through the issue of Kosovo – believes Rada Trajković, president of the European Movement of Serbs from Kosovo and advisor to the Minister for Communities and Return in the Government of Kosovo.
Commenting on today’s meeting of the top of the state with representatives of the Serbs from Kosovo, ten days before the elections, on April 23, the interviewee of Danas said that “all the representatives of the Serbs in Kosovo, before the Serbian List, always focused first and foremost on improving the quality of life of ordinary people”.
- The Serbian list, which, now it is completely obvious, is not interested in the lives and interests of ordinary people, but is only an instrument of Vučić in his effort to maintain his importance and role on the international level through the Kosovo issue. We see this mostly in the matter of the upcoming local elections in the north. Because, remember how the Serbian List suddenly appeared to take over mandates in the Assembly of Kosovo – supposedly to prevent ‘Kurti’s people’ from taking them over. And now the municipalities and mayor’s posts are being surrendered without resistance, with Vučić’s statement today that Kurti will be the mayor of the Serbs in the north – says our interlocutor.
Vučić and Srpska List are not interested in the functionality of Serbian municipalities
They are simply not interested in the functionality of Serbian municipalities, he adds, everything that should be done and implemented locally is done by them through the mafia and the parallel system maintained and controlled by Milan Radoičić.
- They are only interested in power at the central level of Kosovo, where some greater political or economic gain can be achieved – especially for the Vučić regime and people close to it. In this way, they also observe the ZSO project – not as a community of functional municipalities that will take care of the interests of citizens – but as some legalized international legal entity that will allow them to behave as they have behaved to this day – without rules and responsibility before by law – she concludes.
Let us remind you that the Serbian List is boycotting the elections in four municipalities in the north of Kosovo scheduled for April 23. About half a year ago, Serbs left all Kosovo institutions, so now there are no more Serbian policemen, judges in that part of Kosovo…
It is clear that such decisions are made under the command or with the indispensable consent and obedience of the Serbian List to the authorities in Belgrade.
Vučić: If we agree to their frauds, we will not…
The so-called official Vučić reasons why the Serbs are now ignoring Kosovo’s institutions and government in this way consist in the fact that the government of Albin Kurti refuses to form the Union of Serbian Municipalities, despite the fact that both leaders recently gave verbal consent to an international peace settlement on Kosovo in Ohrid. , the so-called Franco-German plan, which, in addition to the JSO, foresees that Serbia does not oppose Kosovo’s entry into international organizations.
- If we agree to their frauds, we will not agree to the fact that it is very difficult for them to fulfill what was promised. Our position is all the more difficult because we know that most of the Western countries, those who recognized Kosovo, are not at all interested in the ZSO, no matter how they talk about it, and they are not interested in the survival of our people in Kosovo. They are interested in us de facto and de jure recognizing Kosovo, that’s all they are interested in – Vučić said today.
As he says – they are not interested in the least when the ZSO will be formed and that accordingly they organized elections in four municipalities in the north. He also said that he was told that he would be held responsible if the elections were disrupted.
On the basis of four percent of them, how many of them, not essentially, but according to the papers, supposedly live in North Mitrovica – to ensure Kurti to be the mayor of Mitrovica, two percent of them live in Leposavic, 300 out of 15,000, and no more than 60 of them live, and yet they will have their mayor – in Zubin Potok – two or three percent, they will have their own mayor again, in Zvečan as well – he stated.
Vučić believes that Kurti insists on holding elections in order to say – we wanted to form the ZSO, but Mitrovica, Zvečan, Zubin Potok and Zvečan are no longer Serbian municipalities and will not join the Association of Serbian Municipalities.
Why is the CEC of Kosovo postponing the election sessions?
However, yesterday, the Central Election Commission of Kosovo again, for the second time, postponed the session where it was supposed to discuss the preparation for holding local elections in four municipalities in the North of Kosovo, due to, as stated, obstructions on the ground.
Kosovar political analyst Shkeljzen Malići said today that elections in four municipalities in the north of Kosovo will not be held on April 23, indicating that the current situation is not favorable for voting.
Malići told Pristina media that the elections will probably be postponed not only because of the boycott of the Serbian List, but also because of the lack of basic conditions for their implementation.
He said that even if only a few parties participated in the elections, Albanian, Bosnian and some Serbian parties “that are not directed by Belgrade”, the percentage of voters would be very small, probably below five percent.
He pointed out that it would be better if the elections were not held, without reaching a political agreement that would enable the inclusion of the Serbian List.
- When the Serbs left the institutions of Kosovo, they also freed the election and monitoring commissions. It is not clear where the polling stations will be, they were usually opened in school buildings, but now it is almost certain that there will be obstruction by school directors, so the installation of ballot boxes may not even be allowed. Information is coming from the CEC that alternative voting scenarios are being examined, but it is unlikely that the regularity and legitimacy of voting will be ensured in the short time that is left – believes Malići.
According to Malići, Belgrade wants to use these maneuvers in the north of the country to gain time in order to delay the implementation of the Ohrid Agreement.
