The Belgrade-backed Srpska Lista party on Wednesday said it will take part in early elections in May in the north, if only to stop Kosovo Albanians from taking over the municipalities it runs.
The main Serbian party in Kosovo, Srpska Lista, which is backed by the Serbian government, on Wednesday announced that it will participate in early local elections on May 19 in the north of the country. Kosovo President Hashim Thaci called the elections on Monday.
It said it reached the a decision to go to the polls “so that Albanians would not take over leadership of the northern municipalities”, the president of Srpska Lista Goran Rakic told the media.
The vice-president of the party, Igor Simic, had previously called the decision to call early elections “another provocation”.
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