Serbian parties in Kosovo report incidents/ Claim they are "political attacks"

2025-01-26 16:46:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Serbian parties in Kosovo report incidents/ Claim they are "political

The Serbian List, the largest Serb party in Kosovo supported by Belgrade, announced that unknown persons on January 25 threw a Molotov cocktail in front of the family home of its activist, Aleksandra Popovi?, in Ranillug, a Serb-majority municipality in southeastern Kosovo.

This explosive device, according to Lista Srpska, hit the Popovi? family's family car, "completely burning it down."

Earlier, the Serbian People's Movement announced that unknown persons on January 24 attempted to burn one of its billboards in Moguila, near Kllokot, also a Serb-majority municipality in the Gjilan/Gnjilane region.

This billboard was located in front of the family home of Divna Andrews, a candidate for deputy in the Kosovo Assembly from the Serbian People's Movement.

Kosovo Police in the Gjilan region have confirmed that both incidents have been reported and that the cases are being investigated.

The Serbian List and the Serbian People's Movement claim that these incidents are "politically motivated attacks."

"There is no doubt that this is a politically motivated attack and an attempt to intimidate members of the Srpska Lista electoral councils, with the aim of preventing them from following and controlling the elections, in order to favor some other parties preferred by Pristina , " the Srpska Lista statement said.

Meanwhile, Milija Biševac from the Serbian People's Movement has called for the international community to react to the attempt to burn their billboard, stating that democratic elections cannot be held under these conditions.

"You have not scared us ," declared this party.

The parliamentary elections in Kosovo will be held on February 9 and, in addition to the Serbian List, five political entities representing the Serbian community are also participating in them: the Serbian People's Movement, For Freedom, Justice and Survival, the Party of Kosovo Serbs, Serbian Democracy and the Civic Initiative People's Justice.

However, for participation in the upcoming elections in Kosovo, Belgrade's support is exclusively with the Serbian List, which has been boycotting Kosovo institutions for more than two years in line with the decision to abandon institutions in the north due to the insistence of Prime Minister Albin Kurti's Government to ban Serbian license plates.

The Serbian List has won over 90 percent of the vote in all elections in which it has participated since its formation in 2013, but the European Union's observation mission wrote in its 2021 reports about "monopoly and intimidation" by this party's candidates and activists. /REL