However, we'll discuss all possible options, ranging from boycott to participation in the elections under conditions imposed by the regime. Certainly, we're trying hard to achieve as democratic conditions for the elections as possible - we're trying to reach some compromise between the authorities and the opposition. When it comes to control of voting lists and electoral process, the regime was manipulating the most in Kosovo. According to our estimates, it managed to win some 20 to 27 mandates in Kosovo. Now it will be much more difficult for the regime to rig the elections since we'll be also able to cover all the electoral units in Serbia.
Local elections are very important precisely because of the voting lists.
Regardless of the fact that the central electoral commission is in control of voting lists - and this issue, by the way, isn't regulated by the law the way it should be, local municipalities could have a more direct control of who's actually a local resident with voting rights. This is why it's very important for the opposition to stay in power at the local level. One of our demands will be to make public voting lists, just the way it was done in Montenegro, so that anyone could check on those lists. As you probably know, there were corrections of the voting lists concerning certain irregularities which were demanded by both parties. We can't expect that the Serbian regime would do what the Montenegrin authorities did, but we'd like to see that happen in Serbia.