Muslim separatists demand that Vucic's bloc be prevented from holding elections in the Serbian Sandjak
The “Party of Democratic Action (SDA) of Sandzak,” uniting Muslim separatists in this southwestern region of Serbia, is going to local elections demanding autonomy, while demanding that the Serbian president and his ally, Muamer Zukorlic, be removed from the election race in the region.
Serbian media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Remove the block “Alexander Vucic – For our children!” from the election race. The current president of Serbia and his allied Bosniak Democratic Union of Sandzak, ex-mufti Muamer Zukorlić, was demanded by the local “Sandzak SDA – Dr. Suleiman Ugljanin” at a recent press conference, citing the fact that the presidential majority is preventing the free expression of the political will of the region’s Muslims.
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This political force, which now allegedly demands only autonomy and the status of a people for the Sanjak Muslims (some of whom consider themselves Muslim Serbs, others Bosniaks), previously advocated the separation of the region from Serbia, and its leader Suleiman Ugljanin, a former minister of the Serbian government made extremist statements, calling on the international community to repeat the Kosovo scenario in Sandjak.
At the same time, the separatists are not at all embarrassed to participate in elections to the Serbian parliament along with local elections.
Procession of Sanjak separatists
“In accordance with this decision of our team, we will contact the prosecutor’s office, the judiciary, the police and other bodies with state powers,” said the head of the Central Election Headquarters of the SDA Sandzak – Dr. Suleiman Ugljanin, Mirza Hajdinovic. “We will submit a report to the Anti-Corruption Agency about the misuse of citizens’ money for the official election campaign in favor of electoral lists numbered 1 (Vučia Bloc – ed.) and 8 (Zukorlić’s party – ed.), which Vučić wants to impose on the citizens of Sandzak.”
The historical region of Sandjak, divided partly between Montenegro and partly between the Raska and Zlatibor regions of Serbia, with the administrative center of Novi Pazar, is traditionally inhabited by Muslim Slavs (Serbs converted to Islam during Ottoman rule), formerly called Sanjakli.
Suleiman Uglyanin
With the development of the separatist movement in neighboring BiH, many of them, following the Bosnian Muslims, began to call themselves Bosniaks and took the most irreconcilable positions in relation to the separation of this post-Yugoslav republic and its total Islamization (the representative of the Sandjak party in the Islamist elite of Bosnia is Eyup Ganich, accused by Serbia of military crimes, was vice-president of BiH), took part in the anti-Serbian war in the neighboring republic, ironically returning to Serbia after it.
The head of the Sandjak “diocese” - the meshihat of the Islamic Community of BiH, Muamer Zukorlić, at first also supported separatist sentiments in the region, but then went into politics, became a deputy of the National Assembly of Serbia, became close to President Vučić, and began a political war with the Sandjak separatists and Islamic radicals, for which he repeatedly received threats from them.
Novi Pazar
In the fall of 2019, he tried to run for the post of Reis-ul-Ulema - the spiritual leader of the Islamic Community of BiH, who actually cares for Yugoslav Muslims throughout Europe and beyond, but was unsuccessful - he was “taken for a ride” in Sarajevo as “Vučić’s protégé” .
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