UN keeps Serbs in charge of five Kosovo municipalities despite election boycott
The chief of the United Nations mission in Kosovo Joachim Ruecker decided to keep Serbian representatives in power in five municipalities despite their decision to boycott November’s general elections, in an apparent attempt to bypass the potential problems which might derive from the fact that Kosovo Serbs in large numbers stayed out of polling stations.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Thursday, December 06, 2007
"In the three municipalities in the north, I will not certify the results for the mayoral and for the municipality elections. I will provisionally appoint members from the current municipality assemblies to positions within the new municipality assemblies and to the post of mayors," Ruecker said.
In addition to Zvecan, Zubin Potok and Leposavic municipalities in north, Ruecher used the same approach for other two Serbian-dominated boroughs, Novo Brdo in central Kosovo and Strpce on the Sar Mountain near Macedonian border in the south.
For the second straight time, only a handful of some 100,000 eligible Serbian voters took part in November's general elections in Kosovo.
