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Albanian MP in the Serbian Parliament, Shaip Kamberi, has said that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is surviving in power with "artificial respiration." According to Kamberi, 2026 is the year of elections in Serbia and they could mark the end of Vučić's rule.
"While facing the internal crisis, Vučić is currently also facing the external crisis. And most likely 2026 will be the year of elections in Serbia. Elections that, as he warns, will be a crossroads, but most likely Vučić will lose power in these elections. For him, in my opinion, it will be even more difficult if he manages to win the elections with the usual manipulations that he has done so far and this will bring us to a situation where no one, neither the opposition, nor the Student Movement, nor other segments of society will recognize those elections. This is a step that will plunge Serbia into an even deeper crisis. We cannot say that there will be stability even in 2026 and this of course clearly indicates that Serbia will not have the time and opportunity to deal with the integration process ," he added.
According to Kamber, Vučić has plunged Serbia into a deep political crisis, the worst since 2003, when the then Serbian Prime Minister was assassinated. He also says that in relation to foreign policy, Vučić is also suffering total degradation.
" Many expected that with a year of protests, Aleksandar Vučić's power would fall. But he is simply holding on, surviving. He is surviving with artificial respiration, with what has plunged Serbia into one of the deepest political crises since 2003 when the then prime minister was assassinated. There has been a total delegitimization of Vučić's power, that what is happening in recent days is proving that Vučić's foreign policy, of balancing, of equilibration, based on four pillars, in China, in Moscow, in Washington and Brussels, is undergoing total degradation because it can now be said very concretely that after the approval of the Progress Report on Serbia for 2025, the European Union has given its most serious remarks so far, in relation to Serbia's stagnation. That the law that the United States of America recently approved and that President Trump signed clearly speaks of the stagnation in democracy in Serbia. And Serbia is labeled as the only country in "A Balkans with a name that has a stagnation of democracy ," declared Kamberi.
He has asked the future Government of Kosovo to declare the Presheva Valley an issue of national importance.
Over the past year, the only Albanian MP in the Serbian parliament says he has made several proposals for the protection of minority rights and freedoms. Here, he mentions the request for Presevo and Bujanovac to have a prosecutor's office, because it is currently in Vranje, but also the Court of Appeal. All of these, he says, are being ignored by institutions in Serbia.
"For years, especially in the last five years, the parliament has been a toxic environment. An environment in which Vučić and his satellite parties have an absolute majority, not excluding the SPS and some other small parties, and has managed to convince some minorities such as the Hungarians and some Bosniaks to keep them on his side. And within that opportunity, together with the SDA deputies or, as an MP myself, I have launched some initiatives that are important, but which unfortunately are not being understood in official Belgrade. First of all, not only to create better space for Albanians to act, rights, but also to accelerate the process of Serbia's integration into the European Union. But it seems that Serbia is not yet ready to take giant steps towards EU membership, because it itself is delaying them ," he says.
He warns that due to the lack of recruitment of Albanians into the police since 2016, the Presheva Valley risks being left without Albanian police officers in the next decade.
"We have a situation where Kosovo, as the newest state, as the newest democracy in the Western Balkans, offers standards for minorities there that no other state has, not only in the Balkans, but I can freely say that many states in Europe do not have these standards. Meanwhile, by demanding for Serbs something that it is not ready to give to minorities within its territory, Serbia plays with double standards in terms of minority rights and this must be stopped. We cannot agree with Belgrade, only to finance some infrastructure project, while remaining silent regarding our representation in the court, in the police, because we know what the situation brought when there were few or no Albanians in the Police. With the current trend, taking into account that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has not recruited Albanians in the local police since 2016, we will be left without Albanian police officers here for the next ten years. And this automatically returns us to the situation "1999-2000, where there were no Albanian police officers ," Kamberi declared.
In Preševo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, three nationwide protests were organized in 2024 with the slogans "We are changing our address" and against the discriminatory actions of the Serbian authorities against Albanians. According to the last population census in 2022, over 60 thousand Albanians live in Serbia.
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