For 3 years they received 650 thousand euros, Serbian List deputies boycotted any session

On November 17, 2022, they presented themselves at the Kosovo Assembly. And immediately after the oath, the new deputies of the Serbian List released the hall.

In that form, the last 10 MPs from this community who resigned only ten days ago, after the events in the country's north, were replaced.

However, the boycott initiated by the old MPs continued by the new Serb List deputies.

From here these deputies will be seen in the works in the Assembly every six months.

All this to keep the mandate.

But despite boycotting the hearings, it's not about wages.

For three years, these deputies from Kosovo's total budget received close to 650 thousand euros in wages.

And in addition, their non-pretence in the Kosovo Assembly also affected the prosperity of the works.

“has been extremely harmful in the democratic functioning of this institution, we have had the chance of not having been able to pass legislation of vital interest, also constitutional amendments, example, constitutional amendment number 27, which would introduce the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabilities in the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo”, says Melos Gashi, a researcher at the Kosovo Institute for Justice.

Melos Gashi from the Kosovo Institute for Justice says Kosovo Serbs remain unrepresented in the Assembly.

The representation of the non-Serb community in the Kosovo Assembly has not been appropriate in this legislature. We know the number of Serbs in Kosovo and know that they have reserved seats in the assembly, and all Kosovo Serb citizens feel not represented in the Kosovo Assembly”, Gashi says.

That the Serbian List turned its back on the Serb community in Kosovo, they also say at the Kosovo Democratic Institute.

The Serb community in Kosovo is unfortunately unrepresented, this for the fact that the Serbian List is totally dependent, supervised and controlled by the authorities of Serbia, or to say better by the Government of Serbia. Any conduct of these MPs is dictated by the situations and circumstances the state of Serbia has preceded”, says Volnet Bugakku researchers in KDI.

From the ranks of the Serb community in the Kosovo Assembly, Milan Joksimovic currently holds the MP's mandate, Nenad Radenkovic, Ollivera Zdravkoviq, Milan Kostic, Zoran Maksimovic, Svetislav Djokovic, Ksenija Bozovic, Rados Mihajlovovic, Bilana Maksic and Cveko Velovic.

In contrast, out of 120 MPs' seats in the Kosovo Assembly, ten of them are reserved for the Serb community and ten others for minority communities living in Kosovo. /Tve1.