All sorts of combinations referring to constitution of new authorities are made in Pristina, whereas additional seats for Serbs are uncertain. Our compatriots request from the European Union to protect them from discrimination.

While official results for the Kosovo parliament are pending, along with the dilemma whether Serbs can count, besides the than ten guaranteed seats, and on distribution of some of 100 seats, which are available to all parties which passed the threshold, combinations with regards to future government are already ongoing.

While Albanian parties are fighting over the majority, Serbian wild-card in fight for additional seats, if they remain unified, will be the possibility to lower the ramp for the constitution of the parliament, which can’t take place without a two-third majority of MPs from the ranks of minorities.

Vladeta Kostić, MP in the Serbian Assembly, said to Vecernje Novosti that the Serbian List has passed the 5% threshold, and that Law on General Elections provides that minorities’ lists which pass the threshold can participate in distribution of 100 seats, beside ten guaranteed ones for minorities.

“Central Election Commission however formed a working group which is acting out of the legal framework and which decided that distribution of 100 parliament seats will require 70.000 votes. It is inadmissible to change the rules in the ongoing elections process,” assessed Kostić and added that political representatives of Serbs will try to correct those illogical things in talks with the international community.

The Mayor of Leposavić/Leposaviç Municipality Dragan Jablanović said that they’ve got promises that Brussels will decide about the combination which will be used for distribution of mandates: “I expect that threshold for both, the Serbs and the Albanians, is around five per cent, in which case we would win at least five more seats,” explained Jablanović.

The Mayor of Mitrovica North Goran Rakić also expects the reaction from Brussels: “Europe should now really influence Pristina in order that they enable the same rights to Serbs as to Albanians, with regards to distribution of mandates,” said Rakić.

Analyst Dušan Janjić believes that Thaçi will manage to renew his mandate and make a broad coalition with Ramush Haradinaj’s party.

“I neither see the Serbian List nor the Progressive Democratic Party (PDS) of Rašić in the future coalition, and since minorities have become a ‘badge’ everywhere, I believe that Thaçi will offer the coalition agreement to Bosniaks or to another minority group,” said Janjić.