The new mayors are going to replace those who resigned last November, along with the other Serb representatives in all the country's institutions - police, schools, courts, and public administrations - in protest against the failure to establish the Community of Serb municipalities in Kosovo and the presence of units of the special police from Pristina in the Serb-majority north.
Srpska Lista (SL), the largest party of Kosovo Serbs, intends to boycott the vote, claiming the persisting reasons for the November protest, which broke out amidst the license plate crisis.
As a result, most ethnic Serbs, the primary ethnicity in the involved municipalities, Zvecan, Zubin Potok, Leposavic, and the northern (Serbian) sector of Kosovska Mitrovica, are likely to desert the polls.
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