Opposition Party Leader: Serbia's Presence in Northern Kosovo Nearing Its End, Vucic's Policy Traitorous

Zdravko Ponos( BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC/MO)

Leader of the opposition Serbia Center party Zdravko Ponos has said that the ban on Serbian driving licenses is bringing even the symbolic presence of the Serbian state in the north of Kosovo to an end, as was previously done south of the Ibar River.

In an interview with BETA published on Aug. 26, Ponos said that the annulment of Serbian driving licenses had not surprised anyone, adding that he had "no dilemma" that Aleksandar Vucic's Kosovo policy over the past 12 years "deserves to be called traitorous, after everything that's happened, and especially because of how it happened."

"The man couldn't have been unsuccessful at absolutely everything, if he had actually intended to do at least something good. If someone believes in the possibility that he wanted [to do] good but it turned out bad, isn't such a monumental failure reason enough for him to be called to account," said Ponos, a Member of Parliament.

He further said that neither the Serbs in Kosovo nor the Serbian state "have gotten anything at all" from that kind of policy led by Vucic, which he described as "the necessary building block for establishing Kosovo's statehood."

Ponos also said the Serbian Orthodox Church was "already seriously accepting the new reality" seeing as it was "relativizing the issue of state borders and the absence of Serbian state institutions in the area of Kosovo and Metohija."