New North Mitrovica Leader and Asamist chosen

Also, 15 new ambologists have sworn. Of them only one is among the Serb community. He is Dusan Milunovic from the civic initiative “Serbian MEP”. Meanwhile, two others come from the Bosniak community's ranks.

Early in November, the mayors of four municipalities in the north, coming from the ranks of the Serbian List, but even mayors of municipal congregations and asmblists, resigned.

New astronauts, according to the Central Election Commission's decision, will replace the asmavists of the Serbian List, who surrendered.

The Office for Kosovo in the Serbian Government has reacted after the oath of new asmblists, charging that Albanians “with legal strength and unilateral movement received” seats in the Municipal Assembly.

“This way [Kosovo Prime Minister Albin] Kurti is trying to create a clean Albanian monoethnic municipality in northern Kosovo”, the office's response reported.

Serbian officials had resigned as a sign of dissatisfaction with a Kosovo Government decision regarding reregistering cars with license plates issued by Serbia.

But, meanwhile, Kosovo and Serbia, with the European Union's mediation, reached an agreement on license plates.

Due to increasing tensions in northern Kosovo, the elections for municipal mayors and municipalities in the four municipalities in northern Kosovo have been held on December 18th and 25th have been postponed for April next year.

As of December 6th, Serb-run northern Kosovo, tensions have increased. On December 10th, some local Serbs erected barricades following the arrest of a former Serb police officer.

Due to tensions, Kosovo police have increased their presence in the north, and authorities have temporarily closed the two border crossings with Serbia, Jarinje and Brnjak.