Presheva Albanians boycott Serbian elections
08/02/2014

The Albanian politicians of the Presheva valley decided to boycott the Parliamentary elections of Serbia.

They said that the government in Belgrade is showing no interest for resolving the problems of the Albanian people, and that nothing can be achieved by participating.

There have been several meetings in Tirana and Prishtina, and the areas where they leave, but they say that however, the decision is up to them.

“Our Parliament Member in the Serbian Parliament has given no results in solving our problems”, declared Ragmi Mustafa, head of the Presheva commune.

The requests were for a joint list, but there was no consensus. Riza Halimi, Parliament Member at the Serbian Parliament and leader of a party that hasn’t decided about this idea yet, said that there are dissatisfactions by the Albanian population for the “so-called democratic governments in Serbia, since the fall of Milosevic”.

This situation ends the participation of Albanians in the Serbian Parliament, who had Parliament Members even during the war time.