Right-Wing Party Urges Serbs to Boycott Kosovo Elections

Elections in northern Kosovo, Kosovska Mitrovica, April 23 2023 (BETAPHOTO/SASA DJORDJEVIC)

On Feb. 6, right-wing opposition movement Dveri urged Kosovo and Metohija Serbs to boycott the Feb. 9 “separatist elections” called by Pristina, stating that participating in the vote would amount to “violating Serbia’s laws and Constitution.”

In its statement, Dveri maintained that “the only legal and legitimate elections” in Kosovo and Metohija are those held according to Serbia’s laws and Constitution.

“Owing to a series of anti-constitutional decisions [President] Aleksandar Vucic’s traitorous regime has signed since 2012, Kosovo and Metohija no longer has elections that follow Serbia’s Constitution and laws, nor [does it have] Serbian institutions. There is only the Serbian Progressive Party subsidiary called the Serb List, whose coalition partners have included [Hashim] Taci, [Ramush] Haradinaj and [Albin] Kurti,” the Dveri said.

According to the movement, the RTS public service urging Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija to vote in the coming elections “also represents a violation of the Constitution and laws of Serbia.”

“Aleksandar Vucic and the Serbian Progressive Party have handed over all the markings of independence and statehood to the separatist authorities in Pristina: from shutting down Serbian institutions in northern Kosovo and Metohija, through an area code, license plates and educational degree recognition, to an agreement that Serbia will not prevent the entry of the false Kosovo state into international institutions. All that is left for this regime to do is allow the false state of Kosovo into the U.N.,” the Dveri concluded.