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Two days before the elections in Kosovo, Serbian List activist arrested on suspicion of vote buying
2026-06-05 14:03:17 / KOSOVA
Kosovo police announced on Friday that they have 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.
The police stated that during the search they found and confiscated evidence, and questioned two witnesses.
While the police did not reveal who was arrested, the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia announced that the detainee is the Serbian List 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 Rashic 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 announcement states.
Police confirmed that the suspect has been remanded in custody for up to 48 hours.
Of the Serbian political entities participating in Sunday's elections, only the Serbian List, the main Serb party that operates with the support of Belgrade, and the For Freedom, Justice and Survival party of Nenad Rashic, who has so far been part of Kurti's government, are participating.
Meanwhile, Trajkovic is also in charge of the Provisional Municipal Body of Kosovo Polje, which operates under the Serbian system.
Kosovo authorities have closed almost all institutions that operate under the Serbian system in Kosovo, as they consider them parallel and illegal, but Belgrade has merely relocated most of them to border towns on Serbian territory.
The Director of the Office for Kosovo, Petar Petkovic, said that Trajkovic has been 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 operating under the Serbian system in the territory of the municipality of Gracanica were also detained, and they were sentenced to one month's detention due to suspicions that they influenced the electoral will of voters.
These bans come after Rasic claimed that around 20 people who support him have been fired, as Radio Free Europe has also reported.
Otherwise, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, in early June called on everyone to vote for the Serbian List, which is the practice before every electoral process in Kosovo in which this largest party of Kosovo Serbs participates.
Likewise, 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 Rashic./ REL
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