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The resignations we gave did not result in good”.

With those words, Milos Delliq from Leposaviqi, the Serb-run municipality in northern Kosovo, explains the situation in which it finds itself and the fact that it has not received a salary for March.

He is one of several hundred members of the Serb community who left Kosovo institutions in the country's north in early November 2022, in a sign of opposition to the Kosovo Government's decision to implement the process of reregistering Serbian vehicles to Kosovo's plates.

At the time, Serbian political representatives from the Serbian List also resigned, which enjoys Belgrade's support. Serbia, led by President Aleksandar Vuciq, supported the move and in exchange gave all contracts, under which they would have to receive salaries.

But in a pronomation for Radio Free Europe (REL), Dellick points out that there are “set aside” and it's “played the game”, because, as he believes, the Serbian List is now “setting out “with individuals who do not support their policy.

“in that contract says we work for the Serb community. This is of question to me, what this means to”, Dellic asks, stressing that now the Serbian List will blackmail with contracts and salaries.

Milos Dellic, a dentist by profession, worked about five years in the Kosovo system in the area of gerontology. Gjeronto-neqir/nicire is a programme for assistance to older people, who are largely realised through local self-government.

This conversationor of The REL says it had to resign because it had “sources and threats”.

Are there other similar occasions?

In an almost identical situation like Dellick's, his colleague, Susan Milunovic, found himself blaming the Serbian List for that.

Serbia's “List is a list that has been blackmailing people for years. We live here under blackmail and pressure. We worry about our families. If we don't go to the barricades, they take us off our payroll immediately, says Milunovic.

In northern Kosovo, barricades are erected as the form of “resistance” to the decisions of the Government of Kosovo, meanwhile, the Serbian List has always publicly supported them.

Even before, designated citizens have claimed they are “forced” to go to barricades in shifts, but the Serbian List stressed it was only about the will of the people.

Dellic and Milunovic stress they still go to work, for which they have been paid by Serbia since resigning from Kosovo institutions, but say they have not received the salary for March. The services in northern Kosovo, which belong to local institutions, are often interlocked between the Kosovo and Serbian systems.

Kosovo's Serb-run environments operate temporary municipal organs, which are financed by the Government of Serbia budget. Also, health and educational institutions, in Kosovo's Serb-run environments, work within Serbia's system. However, workers happen to be employed in the Kosovo system and then engaged in Serbian institutions.

One such example is Ivana Ignjatovic, who works as a teacher at a pre-school institution in the territory of the Leposavic municipality. Neither has she received the March month's salary, according to the contract Serbia has awarded, after resigning from the Kosovo system.

Speaking of the REL, she expresses the belief that if you give “The Serbian list, because it does not support their politics.

Ignjatovic stresses that six years ago her husband had also been fired “for political reasons” in the Leposavic municipality, which operates according to the Kosovo system. He then won the case in court, but still did not return to work.

I've already had my pay cut. Eventually, it affects people's mass displacement from here. As I said, there are no doors on which we can knock to get a positive solution”, she says.

Did politicians from the Serbian List lose salaries?

Free Europe has been addressed to the Serbian List with a request to comment on the accusations of Leposaviqi's designated residents, but until the publication of this text, no response has been reached.

Neither has the Office for Kosovo provided an answer in Serbia's Government.

In addition to workers in Kosovo institutions, last year, Serbian List politicians at the local and central level have resigned.

However, most of them already had a second salary in the Serbian system, for which the REL reported on several occasions.

Likewise, ten deputies from the Serb List -- a few days after their resignation -- have been replaced by nine other MPs from this party, who have taken their oath at the Kosovo Assembly.

Their explanation was that they did not want to miss warrants reserved for the Serb community. Although they do not participate in parliamentary sessions, they receive salaries every month.