British Ambassador Ian Cliff, in a front-page interview for the paper, said that election fraud, as it happened in 2010, would be a setback for democracy in Kosovo and a very bad thing for its European integration. However, he said that the last local elections had given him hope that the upcoming ones would be free and fair. “If the message of political parties reaches activists on the ground that fraud is unacceptable, then I think we will have free and fair elections”, said Cliff. With regards to the possibility of the Serbs in the north boycotting elections, Cliff said this would be detrimental for them. “I personally hope the boycott will be avoided because otherwise we would not have qualitative representation at the Kosovo Assembly”, he stressed.