Samardžić: Serbian vote to take place in Kosovo

Kosovo Minister Slobodan Samardžić says that parliamentary and local elections will be held in Kosovo on May 11.

Izvor: Tanjug

Saturday, 29.03.2008.

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Kosovo Minister Slobodan Samardzic says that parliamentary and local elections will be held in Kosovo on May 11. Speaking to Studio B, Samardzic said that Serbian parliamentary and local elections were being organized in Kosovo following a decision by Speaker Oliver Dulic, on the basis that Kosovo was an integral part of Serbia. Samardzic: Serbian vote to take place in Kosovo The minister said that it was difficult to say right now who the legitimate representative of the Serbs in Kosovo was, but that it would become clear after elections had been held. "They'll choose their own representatives on May 11," reiterating that the last time that Serbs had voted in significant numbers in elections in Kosovo had been back in 2001. “This first election opportunity will show who Kosovo votes for, and that person will take power at local and municipal level, and be Belgrade’s true partner,” he explained. For local elections to be held in Kosovo, Samardzic said that the government needed to pass a ruling regulating the election process, as a large part of the Kosovo Serb electorate resided in central Serbia and Montenegro. The minister explained that at the elections, displaced persons would vote for local authorities in those municipalities they had had to leave, and that this was a complicated process that the government needed to regulate. He said that it was technically much harder to organize elections for displaced persons than for Serbs who had stayed to live in Kosovo. Samardzic said that in Kosovo there was an organization of Serbs like the Community of Serb Municipalities and Enclaves, two Serb National Councils, committees belonging to various Serbian political parties, and municipal coordinators, and that state representatives had contact with people from these bodies. Slobodan Samardzic (FoNet, archive)

Samardžić: Serbian vote to take place in Kosovo

The minister said that it was difficult to say right now who the legitimate representative of the Serbs in Kosovo was, but that it would become clear after elections had been held.

"They'll choose their own representatives on May 11," reiterating that the last time that Serbs had voted in significant numbers in elections in Kosovo had been back in 2001.

“This first election opportunity will show who Kosovo votes for, and that person will take power at local and municipal level, and be Belgrade’s true partner,” he explained.

For local elections to be held in Kosovo, Samardžić said that the government needed to pass a ruling regulating the election process, as a large part of the Kosovo Serb electorate resided in central Serbia and Montenegro.

The minister explained that at the elections, displaced persons would vote for local authorities in those municipalities they had had to leave, and that this was a complicated process that the government needed to regulate.

He said that it was technically much harder to organize elections for displaced persons than for Serbs who had stayed to live in Kosovo.

Samardžić said that in Kosovo there was an organization of Serbs like the Community of Serb Municipalities and Enclaves, two Serb National Councils, committees belonging to various Serbian political parties, and municipal coordinators, and that state representatives had contact with people from these bodies.

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