Leposavić and Zubin Potok have joined the Association of Kosovo Municipalities on September 14, announced the ruling party, ‘Lëvizja Vetëvendosje’.

‘Lëvizja Vetëvendosje’ said on the Facebook social network that “the municipal assemblies of Leposavić and Zubin Potok voted in favor of joining the Association of Municipalities of Kosovo.

Serb List (a Serb minority political party in Kosovo) opposed this decision, saying that “it is not in accordance with the demands of the local Serbs”, and that “it will continue to escalate the situation in the north of Kosovo”.

At the end of last month, the Municipality of North Mitrovica also joined the Association.

After the election of new Albanian mayors in the municipalities in the north of Kosovo in April – North Mitrovica, Leposavić, Zubin Potok and Zvečan – in elections boycotted by Serbian citizens, North Mitrovica and Leposavić had also requested from Kosovo’s institutions that public buildings of these municipalities to connect to the energy system of Kosovo and pay for the electricity of the municipalities they lead.

North Mitrovica, together with the other three municipalities in the north of Kosovo inhabited by Serbian majority as Leposavić, Zubin Potok and Zvečan, since the end of the war in 1999, have not paid for the electricity used.