Car belonging to Kosovo’s Serb-born mayor Gorski Guric set ablaze
Kosovo’s Serbborn Mayor Gorski Guric’s car was set on fire early on Sunday by unidentified individuals, police said.
Kosovo police said a plastic bottle and a piece of cloth smelling of gasoline were found next to the vehicle’s engine.
Police launched an investigation and the relevant prosecutor was informed.
In 2023, more than 10 vehicles belonging to Kosovo Serb employees of Kosovo institutions that had Republic of Kosovo (RKS) license plates were set ablaze by an unidentified person or persons while parked.
Kosovo Serbs launched a petition on Wednesday to dismiss four Albanian mayors in northern municipalities of Kosovo.
Thousands of local Serbs gathered at the sports hall in North Mitrovica to sign a petition to dismiss Mayor Erden Atiq.
Sanja Krtinic, one of the initiators of the petition, told reporters that Atiq was illegally elected and did not represent the majority.
Atiq was elected along with three other mayors in four Serb municipalities after Serbs boycotted elections in 2023.
A total of 3,640 signatures are required to initiate her dismissal.
The signing of a petition also started on Wednesday for the Leposavic municipality. No information was given about Zvecan and Zubin Potok municipalities.
Northern Kosovo’s Serb-majority area has been the scene of unrest since last April, when ethnic Serbs boycotted elections followed by protests against the election of ethnic Albanian mayors. The Kosovo government issued an administrative order to allow the removal of municipal mayors from office through a petition process.
The Serb List, a minority political party, is leading the petition process. The general rule is that 20 per cent of voters in the municipalities in question must sign the petition for the removal of the mayor.
The petition will then be sent to the Central Election Commission, and after it is verified, the referendum process on the removal of the mayor, which will require a vote of 50 per cent plus one, can begin.
The candidates for minority Albanian political parties won extraordinary local elections on April 23 last year in four municipalities of northern Kosovo - Zvecan, Zubin Potok, Leposavic and Northern Mitrovica - after Serbs boycotted the elections.