Rada Trajković says that small turnout of Serbs on early parliamentary elections in Kosovo is the result of Vulin’s regent structure. She also announced the tough period ahead due to future arrests.

The former MP in the previous composition of the Kosovo Assembly assessed unofficial results of early parliamentary elections in Kosovo and said to TV B92 that main impression of Sunday’s elections is low turnout and strengthening of Albin Kurti’s Self-Determination Movement.

She explained that if you look at total figure of eligible voters and compare it with those who turned out in elections and number of votes won by Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), that is, 200.000 votes, it turns out that they won barely around ten per cent of votes, what according to her speaks about huge abstinence.

Turnout of Serbs in elections was also low, according to Trajković around 40.000 Serbs have turned out what speaks about complete lack of interest of Serbs for those elections, particularly those in the north. She explained that there are several reasons for such situation and that all previous authorities in Serbia, since Milosevic’s time used to have their own structures and supporters, and lately there was Vulin and his associates, who ruled like all a regent, with unlimited power. She also stressed that creation of the union of Serbian municipalities is only a Belgrade’s platitude.

Trajković assessed that new Kosovo Assembly will have more opponents to Brussels agreement and that they will hardly allow adoption of laws deriving from that agreement. “Anyways, what was agreed so far was only implemented by Belgrade, whereas in Kosovo everything goes very difficult, it’s dragging and facing huge opposition,” assessed Trajković and added that ‘Brussels agreement in Kosovo parliament will be a huge problem to Kosovo parliament and that she has no clue what international community is able to do in that regard.

However, she claims that ahead of Kosovo, Serbs as well, there is a tough period ahead. “Everybody is announcing arrests due to organ trafficking, whereas Thaci is on the top of the pyramid. He invested huge efforts in winning elections and in having as many of his people around him as possible. You can imagine the level of ethnic tensions at the moment when arrests kick-off,” said Trajković.

She went on to say that we’ll have to be very wise to overpass that period, and that we must not chuckle over the arrested people if we don’t wish to become the collateral damage of those arrests. “I am very worried due to human resources that we have in Kosovo, when I anticipate the hardship ahead of us,” concluded Trajković.

In the end she assessed that it is very tough to settle such a complicated issue like Kosovo and that the sole leadership of the state, which is in very bad economic situation, doesn’t know where they are strategically – whether they are closer to NATO or Russia. “In such circumstances I think that we don’t have capacities to address the problem of Kosovo and Metohija,” said Trajković.