Halimi: No serious talks on joint participation in the elections (Vecernje Novosti)
MP and president of the Party for Democratic Action (PDD) Riza Halimi said that there was no serious discussion among the Albanian parties in southern Serbia on possible joint participation in parliamentary elections. Halimi said that before the last parliamentary elections, some of the local Albanian political leaders advocated a boycott of the elections for the Assembly of Serbia. "I expect that at the moment when elections will be scheduled, the activities of the political leadership in Pristina and Tirana will start. They will send the message to participate in the elections. However, last time their messages arrived too late," said Halimi.
According to him, in the elections will be repeated problems with the voters’ lists, in which Albanians are enrolled in inadequate way – with Cyrillic letters. "In the electoral rolls only half of the names of Albanians are registered in Albanian. This problem happened four years ago, so the voting had to be continued in some places even after 20 hours, because people who have the right to vote could not be found in electoral lists," said Halimi. He said that the activists of PDD found out that the problem is not corrected.