Drecun: Elections in northern Kosovo represent a twilight of democracy

Milovan Drecun, the President of the Serbian Assembly's Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, stated that it had been expected that the Serbian turnout in northern Kosovo would be less than one percent, emphasizing that yesterday's elections represented a twilight of democracy, to say the least, Euronews Serbia reported.

As he evaluated, the Serbs have clearly shown that they do not accept what Pristina is trying to do and will oppose it.

"No one can force Belgrade and the Serbian people to accept what they have refused. We must take a strong stance that there will be no further talks until the formation of the CSM, until this farce of an election is canceled, and until those four municipalities again find themselves under the leadership of Serbian representatives elected two years ago in legal elections," Drecun said for Tanjug.

He added that less than one percent of the turnout had been expected because the leading and only Serbian political force, the Serb List, had made it clear that they would not participate in these elections.

"These elections are a simulation of elections," Drecun said, and he stated that elections held in containers with armed members of the Kosovo police "take place only in countries where military juntas rule."

According to him, "Kurti's militaristic junta" made it clear on Sunday that there is no Serbian people in the north for them, and that they do not belong there.

"The Serbian people have clearly shown Kurti's junta today that it will never force them to accept the false state of Kosovo and that they will live in their country, Serbia. It is an understatement to say that today's elections are a twilight of democracy. These are undemocratic elections, something that is absolutely unacceptable, something that is aimed against dialogue," Drecun said.

When asked whether it was not a twilight of democracy that the elections in which one percent of voters turned out would be recognized, Drecun said that this was the policy of the West, which was clearly showing its muscles to Belgrade.

"When you accept and declare that such fake elections are legal, you reward Pristina for everything it does against any compromise and the interests of the Serbian people. With visa liberalization and the start of the membership procedure in the Council of Europe, you threaten Belgrade and show that you will go your own way regardless of what Belgrade does," he said.

Drecun also emphasized that there were no concrete actions indicating that Pristina wanted to form the CSM.

"This current situation shows that Pristina does not want to form the CSM. The problem is that the CSM has not been formed, and Serbs have therefore withdrawn from institutions because of the alleged presence of terrorist units, which are actually forces of Pristina. Remove those causes, and the problem returns to normal," Drecun said.

Pristina is going in the opposite direction, and the Quint supports it, Drecun stated, adding that he thinks everything happening in northern Kosovo is a show of strength to Belgrade.

"They want to talk about the CSM, and now they have come up with a new idea - if Serbs do not participate in the elections, then there can be no CSM, because it will not be a municipality with a Serbian majority in a political sense. The situation is putting us in a very difficult position because after these elections, the Serbs, by boycotting the alleged municipal leaderships, will have to organize their lives. President Vucic will strongly advocate in Brussels that we cannot budge one iota from the demand that the CSM be formed first exclusively on the basis of the Brussels Agreement, with completely clear executive powers, to which must be added the absolute withdrawal of Pristina's terrorist formations from the north, as they are preparing to bring in the army," Drecun said.

The chairman of the parliamentary committee emphasized that the new municipal leaders, Albanians, could make decisions that are contrary to the interests of the Serbian people. They could, as he says, make decisions about the nationalization of Serbian land for the KSF base.

"The moment the leadership of those four municipalities passes into the hands of Albanians, we can expect a complete offensive in completing the total occupation and militarization of northern Kosovo and Metohija," Drecun said, emphasizing that the West had clearly shown that it was not interested in an agreement and that the normalization agreement was a farce.