Yesterday, 13 Serbian MPs which are boycotting the sessions of the Assembly of Kosovo, because of the controversial Draft Law on General Elections, agreed on 11 amendments. MPs will continue to attend the sessions and will attempt to defend amendments as soon discussion about them will be included in the agenda.
Chief of the SLS Caucus (Independent Liberal Party), Sasa Milosavljevic explained that one of the amendments stipulates that displaced persons can be registered in electoral roll with valid documents (which also can be a refugee card) and not only with Kosovo documents, as defined by the Draft Law. Next request relates to the period in which voters living outside of Kosovo and Metohija must register, in order to vote.
Serbian MPs proposed that deadline for displaced persons, who would go to the polls will be 45 days before the voting, which would mean that they have to be registered on the same day of scheduling elections, and Milosavljevic claims that this was “the maximum”, which Serbian representatives could request.
The amendments also stipulate representation of all ethnic groups in the electoral commissions, in proportion to the number of inhabitants. The eleventh amendment proposes such a distribution of mandates that would provide reserved seats for minority communities.
When the establishment of the Special Court for war crimes committed in Kosovo and the extension of the mandate of EULEX will be discussed, the Serbian MPs will participate in voting, although they are boycotting the work of the Assembly.
