Simic: CEC has lost credibility as an independent institution, we will file an appeal against the unlawful decision

Member of the Presidency of the Serb List, Igor Simic, said that the Central Election Commission’s failure to approve the publication of the election results for this political party was a disgraceful decision showing that the CEC has lost credibility as an independent institution. Simic also stressed that the Serb List will file an appeal against this decision.

As he emphasized, the regime of Kosovo’s caretaker prime minister, Albin Kurti, is trying to prevent Serbs from choosing their political representatives.

“We have just been informed by the CEC in Pristina that CEC members unlawfully refused to publish the final results regarding the votes won by the Serb List in these extraordinary parliamentary elections held on December 28 last year. In this way, just as this electoral process began, as well as the previous one, the regime of Albin Kurti is trying to prevent Serbs from choosing their true political representatives who will fight for the interests of the Serbian people,” Simic said.

He pointed out that with this decision, Kurti wants to deny 42,759 votes of adult Serbs who, as he stressed, wanted to clearly show whom they want in the institutions and whom they consider worthy of fighting for their rights and representing them within the institutions.

“This is a disgraceful decision that shows the CEC has lost credibility as an independent institution, and that everything it has done in the previous period, and now as well, under pressure from the regime in Pristina, calls into question this entire electoral process. We in the Serb List expect all election observers to react inevitably and strongly to violations of the rights of the Serbian people, while at the same time to the endangerment of a process that should be democratic, but as we can see, in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija it is extremely politicized,” Simic said.

Simic emphasized that the Serb List will file an appeal against this, as he put it, unlawful and anti-Serb decision.

“But the fact remains that even in previous cases, when we received positive decisions from the Election Complaints and Appeals Panel, the continuity of pressure on the Serbian people and the Serb List, even through violations of the law, does not cease. This is something that international representatives must also address, as they often describe Kosovo and Metohija in their reports as a progressive and democratic society, while the facts speak quite the opposite,” Simic said.

At today’s meeting, the Central Election Commission (CEC) did not approve the publication of the election results for the Serb List.

The decision was made after two members of the Self-Determination Movement, Sami Kurteshi and Alban Krasniqi, voted against it.