The appointment of Sreqko Spasic as mayor of the parallel Serbian municipality of Viti is being seen as another attempt by Serbia to build a parallel reality within the territory of Kosovo.
According to the director of the "Octopus" institute, Arben Fetoshi, this action has a symbolic and political effect, as it aims to create the impression among Serbian citizens that Serbia continues to be the dominant structure in Kosovo.
He assesses that this is one of the many cases where Belgrade, through the Serbian List and parallel structures operating outside the law, is trying to undermine the stability and functioning of Kosovo's legitimate institutions.
This Monday, the Serbian government appointed Sreqko Spasic as mayor of the parallel Serbian municipality of Viti in Kosovo, a few days after he withdrew from the race for mayor of Kllokot in the November 9th runoff of the local elections in Kosovo, to support the candidate of the Serbian List.
Arben Fetoshi tells KosovaPress that such an action is evidence of another Serbian intervention in Kosovo's internal affairs, which, according to him, is trying at all costs to build the foundations for the country's destabilization.
"It is absolutely illegal, because it is an intervention. If the Republic of Serbia appoints a Kosovo citizen to head a parallel municipality which is de facto closed by the Kosovo authorities, it is an intervention that aims to create a parallel reality and that has more of a symbolic effect to convince Serbian citizens that Serbia is the dominant structure within Kosovo, always taking into account its non-recognitionist stance towards Kosovo and the fact that through the Constitution it continues to maintain territorial aggression towards Kosovo," Fetoshi emphasizes.
Spasić from the Civic Initiative "Serbian National Unity" on November 3 asked his supporters to vote for the person who sent him to the runoff in the first round, Božidar Dejanović from the Serbian List.
The Central Election Commission of Kosovo explained that the elections in Kllokot must be held formally, because the deadline for candidates to withdraw from the race was September 2, 2025.
In the first round, Spasic won 674 votes, while the other candidate, Bozidar Dejanovic from the Serbian List, won 893 votes. In the second round, the latter had 948 votes, while Spasic had 105.
"I will invest all my strength and energy, together with the former members of the 'Serbian National Unity', and now the members of the Serbian List, in the victory of the Serbian List, under the ordinal number 170, in these local elections, as well as in all future elections in this region," Spasić said on November 3, when he announced to the public that he was withdrawing.
This move by Spasić, according to Fetoši, shows that Serbia is attempting to destabilize Kosovo through the Serbian List.
"Yet another intervention against Kosovo by Serbia, which is trying at all costs to build the foundations of the country's destabilization and consists of an attempt to use dual segments to undermine the constitutional order and the legitimacy of Kosovo's institutions through the Serbian List, which is officially part of the institutions at the local level, and through the so-called parallel structures that operate illegally in the Republic of Kosovo. I think we are dealing with a strategy that builds the foundations of destabilizing goals in Kosovo by Serbia, in the context of their territorial appetites," says Fetoshi.
According to him, it is Belgrade itself that is trying at all costs to prevent the integration of the Serbian community in Kosovo, and as he says, it does this through instrumentalization against the constitutional order and the destabilization of Kosovo.
In the face of Serbia's destabilizing approach towards Kosovo, Fetoshi says that the international community must react.
"It is in the wake of the continuous pressure on the Serbian community, which Belgrade continues to instrumentalize against the constitutional order and to destabilize Kosovo, it has also been a tactical maneuver that shows that Belgrade, through its own structures, is trying at all costs and not allowing the integration of the Serbian community. So, this is the main challenge of Kosovo even within the framework of the dialogue process and I think that increasingly clear signs are being given to which the international community, official Brussels and the USA should increase the pressure on Belgrade in order to no longer tolerate such acts of intervention in Kosovo," he underlines.
Spasic was appointed head of the Provisional Municipal Body of the Municipality of Viti, despite the fact that this parallel structure was closed by the Kosovo authorities earlier this year. /KP/
