Izmir Serb adviser Zeqiri: Serbian List Blamed for All in the North

Darko Radojevicm from Zubin Potoku has found that the poor economic situation in this part of Kosovo is bad, and that pensions and salaries take only people who are related to Serbia. He says Serbs are leaving Kosovo only because of the Serbian List. He says he works in the cabinet of Zubina Potok municipality chairman, working for the benefit of his community. Says Goran Rakic fired him after failing to vote Serbian List

Darko Radojevic, adviser to the cabinet of Zubina Potok municipality mayor Izmir Zeqiri, tells Danas that he is not the only Serb to have entered Kosovo institutions following Serb boycotted elections. He blames the Serb list for the current situation.

Following local elections, which followed the Serb departure from Kosovo institutions in the north and the resignation of Serbian leaders, the leadership of municipalities in northern Kosovo took over the Albanian mayors.

A small number of Serbs approached the offices of these mayors among them, including members of Nenad Rashiqi's party, the current minister for communities and Kthim.

Radojevic was a member of the municipal election commission in Zubin Potok during the recently held vote for the chairman's dismissal.

As he shows, there are currently no more than 2,500 residents in this municipality.

Everything you see is created by the Srpska List, which has no more than 2,500 people here is really sad. Not only here, people are gone”, Radojevic begins.

He says he has agreed to be an adviser to work for the benefit of his community.

A lot of people are moving in, it's a broad topic, there's a lot to say, but in one word, we've failed collectively,” he says.

In the question of how Serbs view his participation in the municipality's post, which they consider illegal, he answers that the pressure is so great that people are not allowed to express their opinion and that some support him, but not publicly.

I wasn't the only one who entered Kosovo institutions, I didn't create Kosovo institutions, they were created by others”. I'm not a pro high policy, I'm in the bar here, I know what every citizen needs, says he.

He says he does not know what to do after the failed referendum on replacing the mayor and notes that the economic situation is very bad and that people are related to Serbia because they receive salaries and pensions.

Radojevic specifically stressed his personal problem with former Serbian List Chairman and former North Mitrovica Chairman Goran Rakic, who is now deputy in Serbia's Parliament.

He explains that he and Rakic worked together in firefighters and that in 2015 he forced him to leave work when he became mayor.

“I had to integrate under the Brussels Agreement, but when the first elections were made under the agreement, then at the Fire Department, Commander Ljubisa Vucinic told me I should vote for the Srpska list. After that, after the elections, there was little and I was fired. As a colleague, he's taken politics, he didn't like that I didn't vote in the Serbian List, but that's the”, he claims.