The ballot boxes came out with the largest number of votes since 2000. The Presevo Valley Albanians, united in a joint coalition, won 27 thousand and 670 votes in the parliamentary elections in Serbia, the result that former Albanian National Council Chairman Ragmi Mustaf sees as evidence of the power of political union, but also of challenges for their representation in the Serbian Assembly.
In an interview for Online Economy, he has said that, despite the two mandates won, Albanians have proved to be the factor on Serbia’s political scene.
According to Mustaf, this result testifies that Albanians have managed to mobilise and join political forces, though increasing the total number of votes in the elections has affected their parliamentary representation.
Albanians of the Presevo Valley have brought all political parties into a joint coalition, the Coalition of Albanians, with what they have joined forces to complete the outcome as well. They won 27 thousand and 670 votes. It is the largest number of votes they have received in their latest history since 2000, and even more votes than in 2020, for about a thousand and 300 votes, when they have won three mandates, Mustaf declared Online Economics.
He has said that, despite the record number of votes, the increase in the vote threshold needed for representation, as a result of the largest voter turnout, has influenced Albanians not to repeat the three-term outcome.
Yes, raising the provision, respectively, of the number of votes at the polling rate, has penalised this direction. The Albanian community, respectively, has come out of nine minority lists, the second most voted. The first, along with the Hungarians, has two mandates on the election lists. Of the 18 lists that have competed in this case in Serbia for the elections, Albanians are the fourth by the vote and third, along with Hungarians, for mandates, he has said.
Mustaf has estimated that the two mandates won by Albanians, like those of the Hungarian community, as well as mandates won by the parties of the Bosniak community, create a new space for minority representation in Serbia’s Parliament.
Despite the seemingly few, two mandates have won the Hungarians, two mandates have won Albanians, even from a two-party mandate coming from the Bosniak community, what has created another space for the contribution they have made to this major change, Mustafi has declared.
He has stressed that the representation of Albanians in the Serbian Parliament takes particular importance even because of the opposition role that, according to him, Albanian MP Shaip Kamberi has had towards Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq and his rule.
In view of the Albanian community, MP Kamberi respectively, has been the real opposition in Serbia for 14 years against Aleksandar Vuciqi, against its authoritarian approach to the hybrid regime, this has created greater space for Albanians in the Presevo Valley to show in these elections that they are really factors, that Mustafi has concluded for Online Economy.
The victory of the student-led protest movement in Sunday’s elections ended the long-standing period of power of President Aleksandar Vuciq and, in fact, opens a new political chapter in Serbia.
With 99% of votes counted, the student-led movement has secured 52.65% of the vote, leaving behind the coalition led by the Serbian Progressive Party ( SNS, which has received 39.2%. Voter turnout has approached 70%, the highest level since 1992.
On September 8th, Vuciq had announced the distribution of Parliament and the call for early elections.
Source Layer: Dukeagini