Brnabic: EP resolution to continue pressure on Serbia, unrelated to elections

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Monday a soon-to-be-adopted European Parliament resolution on the recent Serbian elections had nothing to do with the polls themselves but would be a form of additional pressure on Serbia and President Aleksandar Vucic and the Serbian Progressive Party, which will have the majority in the new Serbian parliament and the next government.

"The resolution is a form of pressure and a form of punishment for two fundamental things, the first one being that, as they say, we are violating the constitutionality of the so-called Kosovo, which is what the EP has objected to and also the reason why Aleksandar Vucic has decided that Serbia vote against Council of Europe membership for the so-called Kosovo, which is what the EP also objected to in an October 2023 resolution," Brnabic told Pink TV.

The resolution is a punishment for Serbia's lobbying against recognitions of the so-called Kosovo as well as for its derecognitions, as previous EP resolutions say, Brnabic noted.

It is a punishment for the president's fight for an independent Serbia with Kosovo-Metohija as a part of it, as well as another warning and a form of pressure because Vucic is resisting calls to impose sanctions on Russia, she also said.

"The resolution has nothing to do with the elections. Of course, they (EP) support people like Marinika Tepic or Dragan Djilas, members of the Party of European Socialists, which has signed up to and supported in a clear manner a declaration calling for EU membership for 'Kosovo,'" Brnabic said.