The mayor of Serb-majority Kosovo municipality of Kllokot, Bozidar Dejanovic was arrested on Friday on suspicions of “violation of the free will of voters”.
The news was announced by the Special Prosecution of Kosovo.
Kllokot is located 55 km from Prishtina.
Dejanovic is member of Srpska Lista party (Serb List) which secured 10 seats reserved for the community in the Assembly of Kosovo.
Representatives of Bosniak, Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities claim that the citizens’ initiative Ujedinjena Zajednica – Adrijana Hodzic (UZ-AH) and Roma Initiative secured votes with the help of Srpska Lista.
Dejanovic was arrested one day after the Kosovo Bosniak leader of Socialdemokratska Unija (SDU), Duda Balje wrote on Facebook that her party had 147 votes in Kllokot, which were only confirmed after the Election Complaints and Appeals Panel (ECAP) ordered the recounting.
Former MP representing Bosniak community for three mandates, Duda Balje and other representatives of non-Serb minorities in Kosovo demanded the annulment of votes coming from the Serb community for Bosniak and Roma parties in the February 14th snap parliamentary elections.
Claims are that Srpska Lista want to increase their influence in Parliament among non-Serb minorities’ representatives.
20 out of 120 seats of Kosovo’s Parliament are reserved for non- majority communities, 10 for Serbs, 4 for Romani, Ashkali and Egyptians, 3 for Bosniaks, 2 for Turks and 1 seat for Gorans.
