Simic: Serb List filed an appeal with the Supreme Court over the certification of candidates on Rasic’s list

Serb List parliamentary candidate and presidency member Igor Simic said that the party had filed an appeal with the Kosovo Supreme Court after the Electoral Panel for Complaints and Appeals rejected its complaint regarding the certification of candidates from Nenad Rasic’s list who are not members of the Serbian community for seats reserved for Serbs.

“This time even more drastically, through the precedent that the Central Election Commission certified individuals on the candidate list of Pristina’s favorite Nenad Rasic who do not belong to the Serbian people. In this electoral process, Pristina allowed people belonging to the Bosniak and Montenegrin communities to run for seats that are constitutionally reserved for Serbs,” Simic said in a post on Instagram.

Simic said that the Electoral Panel for Complaints and Appeals cited as the reason for rejecting the Serb List’s complaint that the party had not provided convincing evidence that Alil Djerlek belongs to another nationality and not the Serbian one, as well as Lazar Radulovic, who has publicly declared and identified himself as a member of the Montenegrin people and was also president of the Association of Montenegrins in Kosovo.

“In this way, someone wants to prevent Serbs from independently choosing their political representatives, from having what is guaranteed to them by the Constitution, namely reserved seats in that parliament, and to enable members of another community to occupy them,” he assessed.

Simic also called on Radulovic and Djerlek to state whether what the Electoral Panel for Complaints and Appeals claims is true, that is, whether the Serb List is wrong when it says that they are not members of the Serbian community.