Treasonous EU-funded NGO's in Serbia trying to get Albanians into Serb parliament

[Crvena zvezda]

Serbs Help Albanians Collect Signatures

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24 April 2008 Belgrade _ NGOs in Serbia have launched a campaign to help ethnic Albanian parties collect enough signatures to take part in the 11 May general elections.

The country’s Constitutional Court has ruled that minority parties, like all others, must collect at least 10,000 signatures in order to take part in the May general elections.

Previously, the compulsory number of signatures was only 3,000. Read more: http://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/9266

The collection of signatures ends on Thursday evening, as the deadline for parties to submit their election lists expires on Friday midnight.

Ethnic Albanian parties appear the most endangered by the ruling, which annulled the earlier decision of the Electoral Commission that applied during the last elections in Serbia.

Riza Hallimi, the only Albanian deputy in Serbia’s 250-seat parliament, said his Party for Democratic Action had so far collected fewer than 6,000 signatures.

He added that he expected to collect some 1,200 more from Albanians in Belgrade and other Serbian cities.

The Citizens’ Initiative and the Centre for Cultural Decontamination are two organizations trying to help the local Albanian parties meet their target.

However, local people in Belgrade are not responding in sufficient numbers, one activist said.

“People do not understand to what extent the Constitutional Court ruling has jeopardised people’s equality,’ Miljenko Dereta, of the Citizens’ Initiative, told Belgrade’s B92 radio.

“It shows the lack of our sensibility towards minorities’ problems, as well as out attitude towards the minorities, especially towards Albanians,” he added.

Serbia’s coalition government collapsed over differences between the nationalists and pro-Europeans on the further relations with the European Union, following Kosovo’s secession from Serbia on February 17.

Some 100,000 ethnic Albanians live in South Serbia. They are represented by several political parties.

[Crvena zvezda]

^ I find this treasonous as those parties have openly supported Kosovo independence. Under Serbian law any party not recognize the sovergnity and territorial order of Serbia should not be allowed to register.

Also. This makes no sense. If Albanians number 100,000+ as this report claims then there is no reason why they shouldn't be able to get 10,000 signatures. The simple fact is Albanians do not plan to vote and these EU funded NGO's should stop wasting their money. I also find it ridicoulous that people who are not members of minorities can help them register for elections.

Furthermore. Where is this NGO in hleping out other minorities such as Vlachs and Gorani who actually need help to get on the ballot.