Some representatives of the Serbian community in Kosovo Parliament that left the session because their demands to have the Draft Law removed from the agenda was not accepted, emphasized that it is critical to wait for electoral changed, during a broadcast on the “Dogovor” programme on TV Centar.
The vice president of the Assembly of Kosovo from the Independent Liberal Party (SLS),Petar Miletic, said that it is not logical to discuss the law on elections if whether reserved seats for Serbs in the next mandate will exist, as was the practice in previous mandates. “We wanted to draw attention to all political actors in Kosovo regarding how we cannot talk about Election Committees, voters’ lists, documents, distribution of seats, and anything that is written in the bill, if we don’t know the answer to the question on reserved seats,” said Miletic.
Goran Marinkovic, member of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDS), believes that, “the fight of Serbian MPs in Parliament” will result in obtaining the right to reserved seats, at least for another mandate. “We have to fight in Parliament. We worked on that for a year. We created a lobby group and discussed with all Albanian political parties, which will have good results for us,” said Marinkovic.
The MP of the Social Democratic Party of Kosovo and Metohija (SDSKIM), Sasa Djokic, is protesting because of the possibility of denying the rights of voters residing outside Kosovo to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections. The Law on General Elections, said Djokic, “is contrary to the Constitution of Kosovo and therefore SDSKIM voted against the new Law on General Elections.”
All guests of the “Dogovor” programme indicated that they will go to the Assembly of Kosovo today, but that it is completely uncertain whether they will participate in the session, which was interrupted yesterday afternoon.
