Ministry denies removal of ethnic Albanians from voter registry

“Claims that thousands of Albanians from the so-called Presevo valley were deleted from the electoral rolls and that the police passivised their addresses leaving them without personal ID documents are unacceptable and we reject them as absolutely untrue,” a statement said.

It said that the Internal Affairs Ministry (MUP) is in charge of residence registration and passivization, adding that the MUP reports daily on changes to residence to the State Administration Ministry. “The law is the same for everyone and is implemented on all citizens,” it added.

“There is no so-called passivization of residence being implemented on citizens of Albanian nationality in southern Serbia and in that sense, the citizens of the Republic of Serbia of Albanian nationality have voter and all other rights just like other citizens of the Republic of Serbia,” the statement said.