Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti reports that Stevan Veselinovic, a member of the Serbian List in the CEC, said that this decision was completely political and against the democratic rights of the Serbian people, that it was violation of all elementary rights of the Serbs.

Veselinovic announced an appeal to the Election Appeals Panel and then, if necessary, to higher court instances.

According to unofficial information, the daily reports that the Serbian List does not have the right to propose other candidates for municipal presidents.

"Further participation of Serbs in any Pristina institutions and political processes organized by Pristina after this act becomes meaningless," Marko Djuric said in a written statement to the media, reports Vecernje Novosti.

Djuric announced that the decision on further steps would be made after consultations with the president of Serbia, the government and the political representatives of the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija.

"Representatives of the fascist and chauvinist movement Self-Determination in Pristina's Central Election Commission today have introduced measures of national segregation and Serbs have been formally stripped of the status of free human beings in self-proclaimed Kosovo," Djuric said in the statement.

One thing is certain, Djuric stressed, Serbia, as a democratic and responsible state, will not deprive the Albanians of civil and political rights, because, as he says, "such madness and irresponsibility of Pristina cannot and must not be merged with reciprocity."

"It is incredible that such things happen in the eyes of the international community, which, without any effective response, looks at all the more destructive manifestations of political rampage in Pristina," Djuric said.