US EditionEthnic Serb Mayors Take Office in Tense Northern Kosovo
Ethnic Serb mayors from the Serbian List party took office in four northern Kosovo municipalities after October elections, ending a two-year governance crisis marked by clashes.
- On Friday, ethnic Serb mayors from Srpska Lista took office in majority-Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo following October elections that produced new leaders in four municipalities.
- Serbia and Kosovo's disagreement over 2008 independence has driven the standoff, with Serbia and ethnic Serbs in Kosovo saying Pristina never created an association of Serb municipalities years ago.
- In 2023, violence flared when local Serbs tried to seize municipal buildings, injuring more than two dozen NATO troops and triggering boycotts over ethnic Albanian mayors.
- Milan Radojevic said the October vote gave a clear mandate as voters in Mitrovica, Serb-dominated part, expressed their will, while Kosovo faces punitive measures from the European Union amid stalled dialogue.
- While open fighting has receded, simmering tensions continue to shape local politics in northern Kosovo, encompassing Mitrovica, Zubin Potok, Leposavic and Zvecan, with roots in the 1999 NATO bombing and subsequent peacekeeper deployment.
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Ethnic Serb mayors take office in tense northern Kosovo
Ethnic Serb mayors have taken office in majority-Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo. This comes after a governing crisis led to clashes with NATO-led peacekeepers.
In nine municipalities with a Serb majority in Kosovo and Metohija, constituent sessions of municipal assemblies were held today, at which the newly elected mayors from the Serbian List took office.
Three years after they left the municipalities, the representatives of the Serbian List are now back in power in four local governments in the north of Kosovo. At the head of the municipality
The Serbian list also won the majority of council seats in all 10 municipalities with a Serbian majority, euronews serbia, euronews serbia, euronews serbia, euronews serbia, euronews, euronews
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