“The MPs of the Serbian List did not vote for the candidate for president of Kosovo, but only participated in the Parliament session during which the president was elected, because we want to behave responsibly and protect our people,” said Slavko Simic, the president of the Serbian List.

Minister of Local Government Administration in the Kosovo government Ljubomir Marić said ahead of tomorrow’s session of the Kosovo parliament, during which the president of Kosovo should be elected, that no one should expect Serbs in institutions to only be there as decoration.

There are great chances that representatives of Serbs at the Assembly of Kosovo will either boycott or request postponement of today’s Assembly session during which the new president of Kosovo is expected to be elected.

The possibility that they may support one of the candidates for president of Kosovo has been almost entirely excluded.

Kosovo Assembly Deputy Speaker Xhavit Haliti said today the Assembly is ready for the election of the president of Kosovo. He also said he expects the Serbian List MPs to attend the Assembly session and vote for the new president. “Everything in terms of technical, administrative and legal aspects is ready. I expect the Serbian List MPs to be at the Assembly and vote for the president. Regarding the conditions that they may have, I haven’t heard anything about that,” Haliti said.

Hashim Thaci’s election has gotten quite complicated. The Serbian List is asking for five demands to be met, otherwise they will leave the Assembly session, making it impossible for Thaci to be elected president. Gazeta Express has learned that the demands of the Serbian List are related to the agreements reached in Brussels during the discussions between Pristina and Belgrade. It is not known whether these demands can be technically fulfilled today.

Visar Ymeri, leader of the Vetevendosje Movement, writes on his Facebook account that the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) leader “Hashim Thaci cannot become President of Kosovo without meeting the demands of the Serbian List, a political entity created in Belgrade and which does not represent Kosovo Serbs, but only Belgrade and Vucic”. “The Serbian List has started threatening Hashim Thaci to get the most out of him. Thaci wants power so much that he is willing to promise and give everything to Serbia just so he can become President of Kosovo.

The Chairperson of the Serbian List, Slavko Simic, said that it is not likely that MPs from this list will participate in the session during which the president of Kosovo is to be elected. He told Beta agency that he also left last night's session of the Assembly Presidency, which was interrupted by the release of  tear-gas and later continued in another hall.

Deputy President of the Assembly of Kosovo, Xhavit Haliti, from the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), said that there is no reason for confrontation between the government and the opposition. He said that there is no reason for PDK supporters to be confrontational. “I am not aware of any call to for confrontation,” Haliti said after his meeting with the Head of the Committee for Foreign Trade and Customs of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Semsudin Mehmedovic.

Serbs, most probably, won’t present their own candidate for the president of Kosovo since it is not likely that they would be able to gather a minimum of thirty signatures before the beginning of the provincial parliament session, which should take place by Friday at the latest, learned the paper.

MP from the Serbian List in the Kosovo parliament Bojan Mitić said last night that MPs from this list were not invited to sign a petition for calling an extraordinary session of the Kosovo parliament during which the president of Kosovo is to be elected, and added that the Serbian List will not present a candidate for this post.