“With its convincing victory, Srpska Lista once again showed it enjoys the trust of almost all Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija,” a mayor of Mitrovica North and President of Srpska Lista, Goran Rakic said to KIM Radio.

Rakic also thanked all citizens who voted for the Srpska Lista mayoral and municipal assemblies’ candidates.

“This success is a success of the Serb people. These votes once again confirmed that Serbs trust to their state Serbia and their President, Aleksandar Vucic”.

“Srpska Lista was not our opponent, our opponent was the entire Government of Serbia with all its resources. When you take that into consideration, our result is not that bad,” leader of the Civic Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic said to KIM Radio.

According to the preliminary results Ivanovic won 1.462 votes in Mitrovica North, more respectively 18.98 percent.

The Serb (Srpska) List has declared victory in Sunday's local elections in all municipalities with a Serb majority in Kosovo and Metohija, Serbian media reported.

According to the Serb List and the preliminary results, its leader and candidate for mayor of northern Kosovska Mitrovica Goran Rakic has also won convincingly.

"There will be a runoff, but in four years," said Rakic.

Serbian Minister of Defence, Aleksandar Vulin congratulated victory of Srpska Lista in municipalities with Serb majority, in local Kosovo elections, Tanjug news agency reported.

“The victory of Srpska Lista is an evidence that nothing and no one can stay between the Government of the Republic of Serbia and Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija,” Vulin said.

He also pointed out that Serbs in Kosovo listened to their President Aleksandar Vucic, their fathers and their children and firmly remained with their Serbia, Serbian media reported.

President of the Republic of Srpska, (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Milorad Dodik congratulated last night victory to Srpska Lista, in the Kosovo local elections, adding it would provide easier achievement of Serb national interests, RTV Puls reported.

“I think it is important and it would provide for the continuation of the policies coordinated from Belgrade. In any case, it would be easier to achieve the Serbian national interests in Kosovo and state policy in Kosovo,” Dodik said.

“Victory of Srpska Lista in all Serb-majority municipalities in Kosovo local elections once again confirmed the unity of the Serb people in the southern province,” said Chairperson of the Serbian Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun, RTS reported.

Serbian side would be ready tomorrow for the creation of a new court and new prosecution with Serb majority in the north of Kosovo, which is a delay of two or three days and therefore Serbia would be ready to fully implement obligations related to the agreement on judiciary, the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Director, Marko Djuric said to Tanjug.

“On the occasion of the upcoming local elections, that are being held under the Constitution and the laws of the separatist authorities in Pristina, National Movement of Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija “Fatherland” calls on all Serbs throughout the southern Serbian province to boycott these elections,” reported NSPM.

A working meeting of the Union of Srpska Lista Women was held in Mitrovica North yesterday, and participants said women in this area are very strong and ready to face political circumstances, Kontakt plus radio reported.

Jasmina Dedic, the Chair of the Union and a municipal assembly candidate of the Srpska Lista in the forthcoming elections, said that women gathered to offer support to the Srpska Lista mayoral candidate Goran Rakic.

Party of Kosovo Serbs (PKS) said today in a response to accusations that Marko Jablanovic was involved in attacks against Srpska Lista activists, that someone had misused falsified identity card of Marko Jablanovic and presented it for identification, KIM Radio reported.

In its press statement, PKS addressed the Serbian President, Aleksandar Vucic, saying that he has intention to bitterly divide Serbs in Kosovo and make the handover of the province “as easy as possible and as painless as possible for the Government in Belgrade,” KIM Radio reported.