Priština "trying to discourage Serbs from voting"

Priština "trying to discourage Serbs from voting"

"Priština's bad intention is clear, as well as its attempt to influence the situation that will come about after the next parliament is formed, in which the Serbs have only ten guaranteed seats," he told TV Pink.

Should the Serbs get more seats, it will not be possible to impose decisions that go against the Serbs' interest, as in the case of the attempt to change Kosovo's Constitution and create the Kosovo army, Drecun stated.

Although the battle for the time after parliament is formed is fought now, it all hangs on the Serbs voting in the election in great numbers, he noted.

"Besides that, we have a very difficult situation in the north and we will definitely have issues with motivating the Serbs to vote, and we also have a problem with registering those listed as displaced of driven out of Kosovo," he remarked.

This election is extremely important because the Serbs elected to sit in the Kosovo parliament will be tasked with advocating the interest of the Serbian people, that is with creating the legal conditions needed for a safer life and good economic future, he said.

"On the other hand, they will have to make sure the association of Serb municipalities is established, gets the place the Serbian side fought for during the Brussels talks and becomes an integral part of the political and social life in Kosovo," Drecun stressed.

Those representatives will be a strong form of support for the Serbian government in future talks regarding the normalization of the relations with Priština, he pointed out.

According to Drecun, the OSCE in Kosovo "does not have to explain the significance of the election, but to create the conditions for the Serb votes to avoid discrimination, because the Albanians want to halve the significance of those votes."

He added that he was "a little disappointed with EU's behavior, because it has not responded appropriately to Priština's scandalous actions."

"The EU is obligated to prevent Priština from acting like that. I do not wish to accept that neither the EU nor the US have the mechanisms to prevent Priština for behaving like that, because it undermines the possibilities of that which should be created in Kosovo, and those are institutions with at least some democratic character," Drecun said.