Displaced persons back boycott of Kosovo elections
The Association of Displaced Persons from Kosovo in Montenegro believes that the staging of local elections in Kosovo illegal, illegitimate and utterly discriminatory, which is why they want Serbia's top government officials to call on Serbs and Montenegrins to boycott the elections.
(kosovocompromisestuff) Friday, October 04, 2013
Association President Milenko Jovanovic said that over 7,000 adult IDPs from Kosovo live in Montenegro and the Pristina Electoral Commission recognised the voting right for as few as 247 of them. We believe that potential participation in the elections would be a mere decorum for the rounding off of the internationally unrecognised and false state of Kosovo, Jovanovic said in a statement for the media. The conditions for the participation of the Serb community in the local elections in Kosovo have not been met, he noted. This is further supported by the decision of the Pristina government to ban visits to Kosovo for Serbian officials during the electoral campaign, and the decision of the Kosovo Electoral Commission to erase over 32,000 registered IDPs from central Serbia who applied to vote within legal deadlines, Jovanovic said. Belgrade has so far demonstrated the commitment to find a solution though dialogue and agreements which would be satisfactory for both Albanians and Serbs, but it is obviously that the Albanian side wishes to force Serbia to legalise unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo at any cost, Jovanovic said.
