Serb List filed appeal to Supreme Court over mandate granted to Rasic

The Serb List announced that, after the Election Complaints and Appeals Panel rejected its appeal, it had filed an appeal with the Supreme Court over the allocation of one of the parliamentary seats reserved for the Serbian community to Nenad Rasic based on, as it claims, non-Serbian, predominantly Albanian votes.

In a statement, the Serb List said that the Election Complaints and Appeals Panel did not dispute the fact that the seat had been won with votes from the Albanian and other non-majority communities, but instead focused on issues of ballot secrecy and voting rights, even though, according to the party, those issues were not the subject of its appeal.

"The key question we posed to the Election Complaints and Appeals Panel, and now pose to the Supreme Court, is whether this has undermined the Serbian people's constitutional right to authentic representation, given that the reserved seats are a constitutional category established precisely to protect that right," the statement said.

The Serb List assessed that the Election Complaints and Appeals Panel had "clearly avoided answering the essential question" and expressed hope that the Supreme Court would issue a fair ruling, protect the rights of the Serbian people, and uphold the constitutional guarantees of authentic representation.

"The Serb List will continue to fight for the rights of the Serbian people, although we are aware of all the shortcomings and the politicization of this case, which further confirm the weaknesses of the judicial system," the statement concluded.

A few days ago, the Election Complaints and Appeals Panel rejected all appeals against the final election results, including the Serb List's appeal, as well as two appeals filed by the New Democratic Party, which sought the annulment of votes won by Nenad Rasic's For Freedom, Justice and Survival party in six villages in the Prizren area.

The party stated that, according to official data, those villages are home to 8,259 Bosniaks and six Serbs, while the For Freedom, Justice and Survival party received 203 votes there.