The same scenario as last year: What is the Serbian List aimed at with elections in the North?

At the time, the Serbian List, like the most powerful Kosovo Serb party, boycotted the process, calling for citizens in that part not to appear in the ballot boxes.

A year later, yor this party is repeating the same scenario, calling on Serbs in that section on April 21st not to come out to vote “TO” or “K U n BUY” The departure of the current chairmans.

As long as today, Four members of the Serbian List's Municipal Election Commission responded positively to call for boycott, resigning.

In this regard, how this whole process is going, the current mayors will remain in position, with only 3.47 % of their votes from Albanians in that part.

In a proposal for Periscope, Zubin Potok Chairman Izmir Zeqiri, says that this position by the Serbian List for boycott has been made because they have known such a process will fail.

“Of course we will remain chairman, that they [Serbian List] have seen that it can result on April 21st, and in this direction they have now drawn those positions, calls for a boycott to fail the process, because that way they would fail”, The Zeqiri told Periscope.

At a media conference Sunday, Serbian List Chairman Zlatan Elek said Prime Minister Albin Kurti has done everything for the referendum, as he has called it, to fail.

Elek said the party's stance is also the will of Serbs, who make up the majority in northern Mitrovica, Zvecan, Zubin-Potok and Leposaviq.

He counted several reasons why this process should be boycotted.

The “may be in vain in referendum and we mistreat citizens who have been badly mistreated by the regime's depression in Pristina. And the question arises whether the referendum is under the Constitution. A tern doesn't make spring. With the arrival of four of our leaders, Albanian asganists will remain until the end of their term. We have warned foreign ambassadors of this”He said Elek.

The party's first rejected voting under surveillance by security cameras. According to him, there is nowhere in the world to be voted under surveillance. He has also complained about the number of voters, which have been confirmed under the Central Election Commission. Elek said that the number given does not match reality on the ground.

“On several occasions, during meetings with QUINT representatives and other ambassadors, we have warned that this data is not accurate and that it does not coincide with the real situation on the ground, because in recent months, more than 15 percent of people from the north of Kosovo have been displaced. Unfortunately, we haven't come to terms. There have been many opportunities for the removal of mayors, such as their”He said Elek.

Therefore, LS boycotting has also come the American Embassy's response to Kosovo, where the same have expressed regret over the call of the most powerful Serbian party in Kosovo.

In an answer to <x0), the US Embassy has also asked the Government of Kosovo to be “sensitive to concerns” of the Serb community in northern Kosovo concerning this process.

“We regret the Serbian List's statement that they will withdraw from turnout in the vote for the dismissal of northern mayors. We expect the Kosovo government to be sensitive to the concerns of its citizens in the north of Kosovo throughout this process. The United States and our partners will continue to follow this process closely”It says in response.

“Sic has repeatedly said Ambassador Havenier and other US government officials, we believe it is important that Kosovo citizens have the ability to exercise their right to dismiss the mayors in line with Kosovo's legal framework, if they decide to do so”He said no more embassy.

German Ambassador Jorn Rohde has also spoken about this Serbian List stance, expressing concern about this approach.

On April 21st, Kosovo election bodies will hold the vote for the withdrawal of mayors in four northern municipalities. It's extremely sad and I have to say worrying that the Serbian List has decided not to take part in the vote again. It is a clear case here that citizens in the north are again being pressured not to participate in democratic processes”Ambassador Rohde said.

He has said the Serbian List policy in these months could be described in two words “bojkos and resignation”.

Rohde has further said this is another one of the Serb List's autogogues.

For me, the Serbian List's policy in the past 18 months can be summed up sincerely in two words: cell phones and resignations. This is catastrophic, an injury to all citizens of northern municipalities and another autogogue from the Serbian List, of course it doesn't help to ensure that we will have in the north heads who represent fully the electorate which they serve”Rohde said it'sgraphy.

Kosovo's Central Election Commission decided that the vote should be held in 21, after verifying citizens' signatures in petitions for the dismissal of mayors of Serb majority municipalities in northern Kosovo, northern Mitrovica, Leposaviq, Zvecan and Zubin Potok.

The signatures gathered in mid-January in line with an administrative guide issued by the Government of Kosovo in order to pave the way for announcing early elections in northern municipalities, because the local Serb population has not accepted Albanian mayors.

According to the directive, adopted last September, for this vote to be successful, it takes 50 percent, plus one vote of citizens with the right vote. /PERISCOP/