Miladin Sevarlic (BETAPHOTO/LUKA FILIPOVIC/MO)
An independent Member of Parliament (MP), Miladin Sevarlic, said on May 11 that he was going to stop a hunger strike he went on the day earlier, because his demands didn't get the attention they deserved as he couldn't compete with the popularity of others who also went on strike for reasons he believed were less important than the fate of Kosovo.
"The hunger strike was my idea, and I reported it to the Parliament, but the initiative was overshadowed by the popularity of the ruling majority on the one hand, and the Dveri movement on the other," Sevarlic said, adding that the issues raised by the two groups were not as important as Kosovo.
"I believe that the incident involving Marjan Risticevic and a demand that the electoral process be postponed over the Covid-19 pandemic are indeed the matters requiring a debate, but are certainly not among the most important national issues," the MP said, suggesting to reporters to ask the other three strikers what their position on Kosovo was.
Sevarlic went on the hunger strike on May 10, requesting that the Serbian parliament should discuss the Kosovo issue. The Dveri leader, Bosko Obradovic, joined Sevarlic, asking for a dialogue and postponement of elections, alongside with two MPs of the Serbian Progressive Party, demanding that prosecutors "should start doing their jobs."
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