Chairman of the Serbian parliament’s Committee on Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Milovan Drecun said Monday that the results of the elections for the Kosovo assembly showed that the Albanians in Kosovo were aware that their future largely depended on normalization of relations with Belgrade.

Drecun told reporters in the Serbian parliament that the very low voter turnout in KiM was proof of enormous discontent of the people with the way the outgoing administration in Pristina had been finding answers to their everyday problems.

Commenting on turnout of KiM Serbs, Drecun noted that it had been lower than in the last local elections, which showed that the people recognized the importance of local elections for their daily life while not attaching the same importance to the presence of Serb representatives in the provincial parliament in Pristina.

Still, the parliament in Pristina will play a considerable role in passing laws important to the creation of a community of Serb municipalities and we expect a unified approach by Serb representatives and their full coordination with the government in Belgrade, said Drecun.

He said the Serb turnout had been good, if one took into account everything that had been taking place before the elections and the fact that the invitation from the Government of Serbia for them to go to the polls had come just days before the elections, which was why there had been no real campaign.

Drecun also expressed the expectation that the Serb deputies would work together to successfully prevent passage of pieces of legislation that were against their interests, such as the bill on the creation of the so-called Kosovo security force.