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Kosovo Police Arrest Serbian List Activist

Politiko 2026-06-05 18:50:39

Kosovo police announced on Friday that they had arrested a man from the municipality of Gracanica near the capital Pristina on suspicion of accepting and giving bribes in connection with voting, two days before the June 7 snap parliamentary elections. They said they had found and confiscated evidence during the search and had questioned two witnesses. While police did not say who was arrested, the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo said the detainee was Lista Srpska activist Aleksandar Trajkovic from the village of Uglare.

She condemned his arrest as “additional pressure on the Serbian people with the aim of Albin Kurti (the acting Prime Minister of Kosovo) helping his favorite Nenad Rašić in the election race.” The police announced that the detained person, according to official investigations, had called on citizens to go to a bar in the village of Uglar, where he would give them instructions to vote for the Serbian List and its candidates.

"In exchange for their vote, they were allegedly promised that they would gain the right to social benefits paid by the Serbian state," the statement said. Of the Serbian political entities participating in Sunday's elections, only the Serbian List - the main Serb party operating with the support of Belgrade - and the For Freedom, Justice and Survival party of Nenad Rašić, who has so far been part of Kurti's government. Meanwhile, Trajković is also the head of the Provisional Municipal Body of Kosovo Polje, which operates in the Serbian system.

The Kosovo authorities have closed almost all institutions that operate under the Serbian system in Kosovo, considering them parallel and illegal, but Belgrade has only relocated most of them to border towns on Serbian territory. The Director of the Office for Kosovo, Petar Petkovic, said that Trajkovic was ordered to be detained for 48 hours and that “the false narratives with which Pristina is trying to discredit him will not pass”. Earlier, seven directors of educational and health institutions that operate under the Serbian system in the municipality of Gracanica were also detained, while they were ordered to be detained for one month due to suspicions that they influenced the electoral will of voters.

These bans come after Rasic claimed that about 20 people who support him have been fired, as reported by Radio Free Europe. Otherwise, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, in early June called on everyone to vote for the Serbian List, which is a practice before every electoral process in Kosovo in which this largest party of Kosovo Serbs participates. Also, the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees has called on displaced persons to exercise their right to vote in the Kosovo elections, while Petkovic is visiting cities in Serbia where he talks to displaced persons and invites them to vote for the Serbian List. In the last elections, the Serbian List won nine of the ten seats reserved for the Serbian community in the Kosovo Assembly, while one seat was won by Rasic. /REL