Serbs call for election boycott in Kosovo

The campaigns have officially begun for Kosovo's local and parliamentary elections, due to take place on November 17. The Serb government is urging Serb voters in Kosovo to boycott the elections. Peter Potocnik comments: "Some Serb-Kosovar politicians have received threats, with the result that many have withdrawn their candidacy even though 20 of the 100 parliamentary seats are reserved for members of the non-Albanian minority, and of those at least ten usually go to the Kosovo-Serbs. The Serbs' call to boycott the elections in Kosovo goes back to the regime led by Slobodan Milosevic, when on June 10 1999 the southern Serb province was put under UN administration. Now the whole farce is repeating itself. This raises the question of whether Serbia really is making progress and whether it will continue on the path towards Europe it took under former Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. He paid with his life for that."

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