"Attacks were meant to cover up boycott's success"

BELGRADE The (DSS) party and the right-wing movement Nasi said on Sunday that "the forces of the official political agenda" were behind incidents in northern Kosovo. The party accused the authorities of staging attacks on a number of polling stations in Kosovo and destruction of election material "because they were not happy that the boycott of the elections succeeded in those places." "Attacks were meant to cover up boycott's success" DSS Vice President Slobodan Samardzic said in a written statement delivered to the media that the local elections in Kosovo on Sunday "suffered a mass boycott from the Serb population." That was the reason for the "sudden vandalism and destruction of the election material at a number of polling stations in the city of northern Kosovska Mitrovica," the statement says. "We condemn those actions most severely and ask in whose interest it is to destroy the results of the elections. Certainly, it is in the interest of those dark forces of our official political agenda that have tried to force the Serbian people north of the Ibar river to destroy with their votes the Serbian institutions and establish ethnic Albanian institutions of local government," Samardzic said. "When they realized they had not succeeded, they destroyed the evidence of their historic defeat, for which they will probably place the blame on the free people who boycotted the elections and those who did not let the planned theft reach the public," he noted. According to a Tanjug report, the Nasi movement " even claim that they know who led the attacks on the polling stations." Tanjug

"Attacks were meant to cover up boycott's success"

DSS Vice President Slobodan Samardžić said in a written statement delivered to the media that the local elections in Kosovo on Sunday "suffered a mass boycott from the Serb population."

That was the reason for the "sudden vandalism and destruction of the election material at a number of polling stations in the city of northern Kosovska Mitrovica," the statement says.

"We condemn those actions most severely and ask in whose interest it is to destroy the results of the elections. Certainly, it is in the interest of those dark forces of our official political agenda that have tried to force the Serbian people north of the Ibar river to destroy with their votes the Serbian institutions and establish ethnic Albanian institutions of local government," Samardžić said.

"When they realized they had not succeeded, they destroyed the evidence of their historic defeat, for which they will probably place the blame on the free people who boycotted the elections and those who did not let the planned theft reach the public," he noted.

According to a Tanjug report, the Naši movement " even claim that they know who led the attacks on the polling stations."