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Residents of four Serb-majority municipalities on Sunday overwhelmingly boycotted a vote on removing their ethnic Albanian mayors from office following last year's mayoral elections.

Residents of four Serb-majority municipalities are casting their votes Sunday on removing their ethnic Albanian mayors from office following last year's mayoral elections, overwhelmingly boycotted by the Serb minority.

Bosnia and Herzegovina on Dec. 23 formed a new government 14 months after general elections in October 2018.

Receiving a vote of confidence in the House of Representatives, the new government was formed by the country's largest Bosniak, Serb and Croat parties, who agreed to form the government last month.

Lawmakers in Kosovo passed a no-confidence motion on Thursday in the government of outgoing Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, setting the clock ticking to an early parliamentary election within the next 45 days.

The US, French, German, Italian and British embassies in Pristina - known collectively as the Quint group - issued a statement on Monday expressing worries about "restricted electoral competition" at mayoral elections in Serb-majority north Kosovo on May 19.

The parliament of Kosovo has approved Ramush Haradinaj as new prime minister. The 120-seat parliament endorsed Haradinaj's appointment on September 9 with 61 votes in favor and one abstention. Opposition members boycotted the vote.

The parliament also approved Haradinaj's cabinet, with the main ethnic Serb party, Sprska Lista, backing the new prime minister.

BELGRADE/SKOPJE - The situation in Macedonia is leading to us ethnic Serbs becoming an endangered minority and suffering the same fate as the Kosovo Serbs, says Macedonian MP Ivan Stoilkovic, the leader of the only Serb party in the country - the Democratic Party of Serbs (DPS).

Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic has denied that his party, the ruling Serb Progressives (SNS), was working on forming "a branch" in Montenegro.

The Bosnia Parliament is expected to vote on Thursday over the opposition-proposed dismissal of Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija and the Defence Minister Zekerijah Osmic. 

The Central Election Commission on Thursday announced its final tally which closely resembled the preliminary figures from the June 8 national polls that gave the lead to Hashim Thaci’s ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK.