Dragisa Vlaskovic new mayor of Kosovska Mitrovica
Dragisa Vlaskovic from the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) was elected municipal president of Kosovska Mitrovica at an extraordinary session of the municipal assembly on Tuesday.
(kosovocompromisestuff) Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Vlaskovic was elected since Krstimir Pantic, the deputy director of the Serbian government's office for Kosovo-Metohija, resigned the post several days ago.
Aleksandar Spiric from the United Regions of Serbia (URS) was elected Vlaskovic's deputy.
Bogdan Spadijer (SNS), Ninoslav Djeric from the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Biljana Janicijevic (SNS), Sasa Nikolic (SPS) and Biljana Bogosavljevic (SNS) were elected members of the municipal council.
A total of 17 councilors voted for the new municipal leadership, while 11 councilors of the opposition Democratic Party (DS) and the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) left the session before voting.
Marko Jaksic (DSS) explained that they did it because of, as he put it, the violation of the Rules of Procedure and non-statutory conduct of the session.
The local government in Kosovska Mitrovica was reshuffled several days ago, since the SNS broke up the coalition with the DSS.
The new majority now comprises the SNS, the URS, the SPS, Citizen Initiative Serbia, Democracy, Justice - Oliver Ivanovic and the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia.
