Grubesic: Campaign will be dirty, Kurti will resort to chauvinism again

Aleksa Grubesic from the Center for Social Stability told Kosovo Online that he expects a dirty election campaign in Kosovo, where anti-Serb themes will, in some ways, dominate, and that Self-Determination and their leader Albin Kurti will once again resort to chauvinism.

"From everything that could be seen so far, especially regarding the way Self-Determination tried to challenge the Serb List, we can expect this campaign to be dirty," Grubesic stated to Kosovo Online.

He adds that this conclusion is drawn not only from the attempt to challenge the Serb List but also from everything that has happened in the previous period, including the explosion on the Ibar-Lepenac canal, behind which, Grubesic notes, stands the regime in Pristina, which tried to attribute it to official Belgrade and representatives of the Serb List.

"And not to mention the terror by members of the so-called Kosovo Police and attempts to prosecute Serbs and every other endangerment of the security of Serbs in northern Kosovo. From all this, we can see that anti-Serb themes will be somewhat at the center of the campaign, and that primarily Self-Determination and Kurti will resort to chauvinism this time," Grubesic is convinced.

He also notes that the parliamentary elections on February 9th are just a prelude to elections that may be even more important for the Serbs - the elections in four municipalities in northern Kosovo, which will be held in the fall, where Serbs should return to the institutions they left at the end of 2022.

He concludes that since then, the international community, which was tasked with putting pressure on Pristina, has done nothing in this regard.

"This is a defeat for the European Union, because they simply failed to force Kurti to meet the basic conditions of the Brussels Agreement. The strategy of leaving the institutions has failed, and the biggest blame for this lies with the international community, apart from Kurti, because they did nothing in this regard," Grubesic concluded.