Following the extraordinary sessions of the Serb majority municipal assemblies in northern Kosovo, mayors of Mitrovica North, Leposavic, Zvecan and Zubin Potok have resigned, Serbian national broadcaster RTS reports.
The reason is, as Mitrovica North Mayor Rakic said discriminatory policy of Pristina. Courts in these towns also stopped working. The bodies/authorities under the Pristina administration in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, therefore, no longer exist. Communication with the provisional institutions in Pristina is discontinued, RTS added.
Further functioning of local self-governments in the Pristina system in the north of Kosovo and Metohija is suspended, authorities and municipal services will not function, and local assemblies will not meet.
This decision is final and will remain in force until the complete withdrawal of all discriminatory measures of Pristina.
In explaining his resignation, Goran Rakic said that the reason is continued institutional repression carried out by Kosovo institutions from Pristina, as well as the jeopardizing of the human rights of Serbian people.
Stevan Vulovic, who resigned as Mayor of Zubin Potok, told RTS he would ask the Serbian Assembly Speaker to call elections through the Serbian system. This procedure, he says, shows that he is with the Serbian people. “We have suffered torture for the past five years from both the international community and the provisional institutions of Kosovo. Everything has an end,” Vulovic said.
