Kamberi: Serbia Takes Example in Treating Minority

Contrary to countries in the region, in which minority representation in parliament is done with guaranteed seats, the current electoral system makes Serbia an ethnocentric state, with Serbs in the centre and in the other (bars) on the outskirts of”, Kamberi has said.

According to him, among the most important indicators of democracy in one state is the way national minorities treat. Therefore, even the participation of national minorities in the process of making political decisions of the local central level is the subject of which international institutions have dedicated importance.

“The effective participation of national minorities in public life is the main part of a democratic and peaceful society”, said in suggestions by Lonfi, of the OSCE's top community, for national minorities. While Ljubljana's recommendations, the same institution is talking about the necessity that with “internal legislation must be accepted and cultivated the diversity of a society”, Kamberi writes in a Facebook post.

He has said that states that have moved and are moving towards liberal democracy such as Croatia, Slovenia and Kosovo, to ensure the effective participation of minorities in public life, with domestic legislation guaranteeing the principles of the same strategy that ensure minority participation in political and public life.

Kosovo can be said to be the best example of institutional treatment for minorities. The change of the Kosovo Constitution can only take place if to change 2/3 of MPs from the minority ranks, which, at the same time, in the Kosovo Parliament, guarantees 20 out of 120 of what the Parliament has, mandates for minorities (10 for Serbs). Of the five vice-presidents of the minority parliament belong to two vice-presidents ...”, Kamberi says.

According to him, Serbia's own Constitution defines Serbia as Serbia's “states of Serbs and others”, which in practice creates the possibility of Serb domination of others.