"Serbs showed responsibility by voting in Kosovo election"

"Serbs showed responsibility by voting in Kosovo election"

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, BELGRADE -- Serbs voted in early parliamentary elections in Kosovo "in large numbers, despite difficult conditions" demonstrating their responsibility toward their state.

This is according to Marko Đurić, director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo.

At a news conference in Kosovska Mitrovica on Sunday evening, Đurić said that by casting their ballot in the elections, Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija stood by their state, underscoring that now in the province"we have a clearer picture and better situation when it comes to the future of the entire political process."

The director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija underlined that Sunday's elections opened up a clear and more secure perspective for the formation of a community of Serb municipalities (ZSO).

"Serbs of Kosovo have today stood by their state and that is a significant indicator that we have reached a phase when through joint efforts and discipline, organization and commitment, we can fight for our goals, maybe in the way previously used by our opponents in this entire process we are in today," he said.

Đurić said that talks on contentious decisions by the Central Election Commission (CEC) will be open in the coming days, in relation to the distribution of seats.

"As we were saying even before the elections started, the fact that the rules were changed just several days before the polls is illustrative of the irresponsible approach that some of key political actors in Priština took to this process," Đurić said.

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