Published January 29,2024
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Kosovo’s Serb-born Mayor Gorski Guric’s automobile was set on hearth early Sunday by unidentified people, police stated.
Kosovo police stated a plastic bottle and a bit of fabric smelling of gasoline have been discovered subsequent to the automobile’s engine.
Police launched an investigation and the related prosecutor was knowledgeable.
In 2023, greater than 10 autos belonging to Kosovo Serb workers of Kosovo establishments that had Republic of Kosovo (RKS) license plates have been set ablaze by an unidentified individual or individuals whereas parked.
Kosovo Serbs launched a petition Wednesday to dismiss 4 Albanian mayors in northern municipalities of Kosovo.
Thousands of native Serbs gathered on the sports activities corridor in North Mitrovica to signal a petition to dismiss Mayor Erden Atiq.
Sanja Krtinic, one of many initiators of the petition, instructed reporters that Atiq was illegally elected and didn’t signify the bulk.
Atiq was elected together with three different mayors in 4 Serb municipalities after Serbs boycotted elections in 2023.
A complete of three,640 signatures are required to provoke her dismissal.
The signing of a petition additionally began Wednesday for the Leposavic municipality.
No data was given about Zvecan and Zubin Potok municipalities.
Northern Kosovo’s Serb-majority space has been the scene of unrest since final April, when ethnic Serbs boycotted elections adopted by protests in opposition to the election of ethnic Albanian mayors.
The Kosovo authorities issued an administrative order to permit the elimination of municipal mayors from workplace by means of a petition course of.
The Serb List, a minority political social gathering, is main the petition course of.
The basic rule is that 20% of voters within the municipalities in query should signal the petition for the elimination of the mayor.
The petition will then be despatched to the Central Election Commission, and after it’s verified, the referendum course of on the elimination of the mayor, which would require a vote of fifty% plus one, can start.
The candidates for minority Albanian political events gained extraordinary native elections on April 23 final yr in 4 municipalities of northern Kosovo-Zvecan, Zubin Potok, Leposavic and Northern Mitrovica — after Serbs boycotted the elections.
Kosovo Serbs organized demonstrations that lasted weeks after Albanian mayors took workplace.
Tensions arose between Kosovo Serbs and Kosovo police who have been despatched to the area to guard the Albanian mayors. On May 29, dozens of troopers of NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR), the alliance-led peacekeeping mission, have been injured because of the confrontation.
The European Union demanded that Kosovo maintain new elections within the area and started to impose “punitive measures” in opposition to the nation on the grounds that it didn’t take steps to scale back tensions.
The Kosovo authorities additionally introduced that it had issued the required authorized laws relating to the dismissal of mayors by accumulating a sure proportion of signatures.
Source: www.anews.com.tr