French media: “Serbs in north Kosovo, hostage to Serbian List”

Jovana Radosvilevic, director of the New Social Initiative in Northern Mitrovica, considers that Serbs north of the Iber River have remained the “stumbling block in the Belgrade game”.

“ “France24”.

The 38-year-old economist, Dejan Nedeljkovic, also from North Mitrovica, life in the north of the Iber River, calls it the time of the Wild West”.

“With a population of about 12,000 in this part of Mitrovica, Serb enclaves and other Serb areas in northern Kosovo, are closely controlled by party ties with Aleksandar Vucic's Serbian Progressive Party”, writes “France24”.

According to the explanations given to this media by local Serbs, the <x0 most of the jobs Serbs do are financed by Belgrade”.

“There is no priority without individual loyalty to the Serbian List”.

You can be as smart as you like, you can have all the schools you want, if you're not a member of this political group, you don't have a chance to get a job at public company”, Nedeljkovic said.

Oliver Ivanovic's adviser says that “that after his murder, we have had many problems. The pressure we're under is unaffordable”.

We were supposed to race ourselves and see what happened. A champion of democracy and dialogue was killed in broad daylight”, she said.

But, despite that, she says she joined the Serbian List because there is no other way, except that the “Serbs are united”.

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