{"id":76219,"date":"2025-08-17T06:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T06:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=76219"},"modified":"2025-08-18T22:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:11:49","slug":"from-boycott-to-return-janjic-vucic-is-playing-with-the-west-through-the-serbian-list-a-political-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/from-boycott-to-return-janjic-vucic-is-playing-with-the-west-through-the-serbian-list-a-political-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"From boycott to return \u2013 Janjic: Vucic is playing with the West through the Serbian List, a political paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>The return of the Serbian List to the local elections in Kosovo, scheduled for October 12, according to Serbian analyst Dusan Janjic, demonstrates the paradoxical policy of Serbia\u2019s President, Aleksandar Vucic.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Janjic: Vucic is playing with the West through the Serbian List, a political paradox\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q9l3MwA7tiw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The local elections of April 23, 2023, in the Serb-majority municipalities in northern Kosovo were boycotted by the Serbian List, which had called on Serb citizens to withdraw from institutions. The mayoral posts in the north had been left vacant in November 2022, when Serb representatives resigned from their functions due to the Kosovo Government\u2019s decision to abolish Serbian license plates and replace them with Kosovo plates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, in these upcoming local elections, Janjic says that the party is returning to the elections with the support of President Vucic himself, thereby \u201clegalizing\u201d a situation created by that very boycott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, this is part of a broader political strategy, in which Vucic uses the Serbian List not only to consolidate his power in northern Kosovo, but also as a bargaining chip with the United States and the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the midst of a deep crisis, where the risk is very high that he might not even be president by October, Vucic continues to support and push the Serbian List to field its members as candidates in the local elections. The paradox lies in the fact that the previous local elections were boycotted by the Serbian List, which called on people to withdraw from the four northern municipalities of Kosovo. The Serbian List and Vucic\u2019s media urged citizens to abandon institutions. Now, in the upcoming elections, directly and indirectly, Vucic has legalized this new situation that was created in the north of Kosovo. This is truly paradoxical. I am certain that this is not the only face of Vucic\u2019s politics. It also includes his game with the United States and the European Union. Now he is using the Serbian List,\u201d Janjic told KosovaPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Serbian List will run in the October 12 local elections in North Mitrovica, Leposavic, Zubin Potok, Zvecan, Novoberda, Obiliq, Shterpca, Graqanica, Ranilug, Partesh, and Klokot. Only for the assemblies, the party will run in Gjilan, Istog, Klina, Lipjan, Obiliq, Fushe Kosova, Kamenica, Vushtrri, and Peja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in these local elections, the Serbian List \u2013 which has declared that it will participate with Serbia\u2019s approval \u2013 will be challenged by around 10 other parties. \/N. Jakupi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The return of the Serbian List to the local elections in Kosovo, scheduled for October 12, according to Serbian analyst Dusan Janjic, demonstrates the paradoxical policy of Serbia\u2019s President, Aleksandar Vucic. The local elections of April 23, 2023, in the Serb-majority municipalities in northern Kosovo were boycotted by the Serbian List, which had called on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":76220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,306,298,296,3131],"tags":[2196,492,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76272,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76219\/revisions\/76272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}