Kosovo

BELGRADE - The mayoral election victory of the candidate of the Citizens' Initiative Srpska (GI Srpska), Goran Rakic, in northern Kosovska Mitrovica confirms that Serbia's state policy enjoys support among citizens in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), member of the Presidency of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Marko Djuric said on Monday.

Vučić, Kasoulides discuss EU integration, Kosovo

BELGRADE -- First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić met in Belgrade on Monday with Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides.

They discussed "EU integration, Serbia's sovereignty and territorial integrity and the situation in the region," Vučić's office said in a statement.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic conferred on Monday with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cyprus Ioannis Kasoulides, who expressed his support to Serbia's EU integration and pointed that any additional conditions placed before Serbia would aggravate the situation and jeopardize stability in the Balkans.

BELGRADE - Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) will vote in early parliamentary elections for members in the Serbian parliament and the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) expects a convincing victory, Marko Djuric, party presidency member, said Monday.

OSCE: Elections conducted successfully

PRIŠTINA -- The OSCE in Kosovo has expressed satisfaction that the repeat mayoral elections in northern Kosovska Mitrovica they facilitated were carried out successfully.

Rakic, the candidate from the Belgrade-backed ‘Srpska’ list, took 52.6 per cent of the vote in Sunday’s re-run polls to win the mayoralty, according to preliminary results published by the Kosovo Central Election Commission.

Serbia's Electoral Commisssion, RIK, told BIRN that early parliamentary elections due on March 16 will be organized also in the former province of Kosovo.

"There will be three members of the committee at each polling station in Kosovo and ballots will be taken for counting at voting centres in Vranje and Raska [in Serbia]," the RIK said.

Serbian government-backed candidate wins in KM

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- The Citizens' Initiative (GI) Srpska has announced that its candidate for mayor of northern Kosovska Mitrovica, Goran Rakić, won in Sunday's elections.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A total of 33 polling places in seven polling centres closed in northern Kosovska Mitrovica at 7 p.m. where citizens cast their ballots for the mayor of the city in north Kosovo-Metohija.

Citizens who were at the polling stations by the closing have the chance to cast their ballots and the polling centres officially closed at 7 p.m.

BELGRADE - Head of the Serbian government office for the relations with the media Milivoje Mihajlovic has said he believes the Serbsin Kosovska Mitrovica, northern Kosovo, will vote in the rerun of the local election in the greatest numbers possible and elect one of their candidates for mayor.