Serbia Conditions Disputed Elections in North on Serb Municipalities Body

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said Serbia will insist that extraordinary local elections for four Serb majority municipalities in the north of Kosovo be held after the long-promised Association of Serb Municipalities is established.

"We just want, and from today we will warn all those who support the holding of such elections, fake, fraudulent or as they would say for some other elections around the world, sham elections, that these are the worst example of exactly such elections … and we will ask that elections are held after the formation of the Association of Serbian Municipalities," Vucic said.

Vucic met Kosovo Serb representatives on Thursday in Raska, Serbia, in a three-hour live broadcasted meeting. Serbian PM Ana Brnabic and almost the whole government was present. During the meeting, in the parts in which Vucic was not addressing the audience, Kosovo Serbs - politicians and residents - complained about specific everyday life problems they have.

Some of them, of financial nature, Vucic was "resolving" in real-time.

In Pristina, the Central Election Commission has not decided yet about the location and number of polling stations in the four municipalities.

On Wednesday, a meeting was postponed and CEC Spokesperson Valmir Elezi told media that they are preparing material. Usually, schools serve as polling stations in Kosovo but the CEC is finding it difficult to get access to school premises.

New meeting scheduled for Friday afternoon

On Thursday, the head of the Kosovo parliament, Glauk Konjufca, hinted that new tensions might arise in the north, as the date of elections comes closer.

"Since the elections [in the north] are coming closer… it is not by coincidence all this is...