Candidates for mayors from the Serbian List won on Sunday in early local elections all four municipalities in northern Kosovo and Metohija. They won more votes with higher turnout than in the 2017 local elections, Tanjug news agency reported.

"Our candidates achieved a convincing, absolute victory in the municipalities of Leposavic, Zubin Potok, Zvecan and Mitrovica North," the Serbian List announced late on Sunday.

"With this the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija once again unambiguously and almost unanimously confirmed their readiness to defend their survival and political rights in Kosovo and Metohija, and the organic connection with their state Serbia," Serbian List stated.

The Serbian List also assessed that the call to boycott the election, coming from those in Serbia "who wanted to push the north of Kosovo and Metohija into the hands of Albanians," had failed.