Kosovo’s Acting Minister of Internal Affairs, Xhelal Sveçla, has leveled sharp accusations against the Serbian government, declaring that ongoing blackmail and intimidation campaigns targeting local Serb voters are born from “directives orchestrated directly by Belgrade.”
Sveçla formally welcomed the rapid operational intervention of Kosovo’s security and judicial networks following the arrest of seven Kosovo-Serb citizens in the municipality of Graçanica. The individuals are currently detained under heavy suspicion of deploying administrative pressure, physical threats, and financial blackmail to systematically warp the free will of voters ahead of the June 7 snap parliamentary elections.
Protecting Kosovo’s High Democratic Standings
Writing on his official Facebook profile, the interior minister framed the arrests not merely as local election infractions, but as a defense against foreign state aggression targeting Kosovo’s democratic infrastructure.
“Such acts, which directly target citizens of the Serb community in Kosovo, stem from directives orchestrated by Serbia, undermining political pluralism and the democratic order of our country,” Sveçla wrote.
The minister underscored that despite ongoing geopolitical blockades, security challenges, and hybrid threats orchestrated by external actors, Kosovo’s electoral processes are highly regarded on the global stage. He noted that international monitoring reports consistently praise the country for maintaining high organization standards, absolute procedural integrity, and ironclad guarantees for the free expression of citizen choices.
[THE INTERIOR MINISTRY'S ELECTION POLICY]
1. Uncompromising Defense of Pluralism (Protecting non-monopolized Serb political voices)
2. Absolute Deterrence (Zero tolerance for foreign interference or cross-border BIA operations)
3. Procedural Integrity (Maintaining high international marks for free and fair balloting)
Ensuring an Uncompromised Electoral Process
Sveçla concluded his public missive by promising that the sovereign institutions of the Republic of Kosovo will continue to act with absolute decisiveness against any criminal apparatus attempting to instill fear or artificially alter the domestic political landscape.
The state, he maintained, remains fully mobilized to guarantee a pristine, peaceful, and uninfluenced voting experience for all minority communities across the country on June 7.
