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Campaign of fear (Zeri)

Judging from the election campaign so far, political parties have openly reflected insecurity regarding the final result of upcoming elections, says the paper’s editor-in-chief Arbana Xharra. This year’s elections, apart from being a challenge for leaders, are also a challenge for political parties which will most likely undergo a reconfiguration process in case of a defeat. “Someone is fighting for survival and someone for increasing votes”, she claims. The two biggest parties, Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), are leading contrasting campaigns.

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Northerners wait for the “order” from Serbia on 8 June elections (Koha)

Serbs from the north have frozen all their election activities due to their dissatisfaction with some of the decisions of Central Election Commission, and it remains unknown if they will participate in Kosovo’s general elections that will be held on Sunday. Concerns of the northerners are related mainly to the symbols of the Republic of Kosovo on the ballots, number of the voters outside Kosovo, guaranteed seats and composition of the election councils in the areas with Serb majority.

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Germany pressuring Pristina to remove "war leaders" (Vecernje Novosti)

Departure of "war leaders", as stated in the analysis, is needed to consolidate democracy in Kosovo and create the conditions for achieving justice and reconciliation. The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) from Ljubljana said in an analysis of the situation in Kosovo, ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, that there is an interest of the international community to remove "war leaders" from the political life of Pristina. "In this context, the strong pressure from Germany is noted, which wants most of the current leaders to leave the political s

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It all depends on CEC (Danas)

Even though mayors of eight, out of ten, majority Serbian municipalities in Kosovo system of local self-governance announced on Saturday that ‘conditions do not exist for participation of Serbs’ in extraordinary parliamentary elections in Kosovo on 8 June, one of those who signed the statement, Mayor of Leposavić/Leposaviç Dragan Jablanović said to Danas that final decision will be made today. Official Belgrade still didn’t voice its position on participation of Serbs in the upcoming Kosovo parliamentary elections, while Jablanović claims that Srpska Ticket ‘w

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Pristina is trying to discourage Serbs from voting (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Head of the Serbian parliament committee on Kosovo Milovan Drecun believes Pristina is interpreting the election law in Kosovo in a way that is unacceptable in order to discourage the Kosovo Serbs from voting in the election on June 8. Pristina's bad intention is clear, as well as its attempt to influence the situation that will come about after the next parliament is formed, in which the Serbs have only 10 guaranteed seats, he told TV Pink. Should the Serbs get more seats, it will not be possible to impose decisions that go against the Serbs' interest, as in the case of the attem

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Serbian list jointly and in possible boycott (Dnevnik)

Kosovo's Central Election Commission did not respond to the alert of the Mayor of the northern Mitrovica and seven other Kosovo municipalities that, because of the new rules for determining the number of seats won, and to the detriment of the Serbian people and other non-Albanian communities, the elections scheduled on 8 June could be boycotted. Recall, the leaders of northern Mitrovica, Leposavic, Gracanica, Zvecan, Zubin Potok, Partes, Ranilug and Klokot assessed the CEC's decision, according to which a small number of seats for Serbs is associated with the abolition of the reserved seats,

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PDS election rally in Kosovska Kamenica (Blic)

Progressive Democratic Party (PDS) staged election rally yesterday in Kosovska Kamenica. Rally, attended by around 400 persons, was opened with Serbian anthem “Lord Give Us Justice”. Outgoing Minister of Labor and leader of the PDS Nenad Rašić said that Serbs, despite all hardships, have sent a message that they will stay in Kosovo. “We’ll stay on our land, in our houses, we have our ancestors’ graveyards here, our churches and monasteries are here.

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Janjić: Risk from low turnout in the north (RTK2)

Belgrade’s decision is expected soon on whether freezing of the campaign of Srpska Ticket will mean the boycott of elections, said political analyst Dušan Janjić to RTK2. He predicts that turnout of Serbs in Kosovo elections won’t be big, and stressed that important political question after elections will be who will get ministerial posts from Serb community, after elections.

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