Serb majority in N.Kosovo shuns vote on ethnic Albanian mayors

Kosovo's Serbs have been pushing for formal autonomy for years, a prospect held out to them in a 2013 agreement with Pristina brokered by the EU. [AFP]

Ethnic Serbs in Kosovo's north on Sunday boycotted an extraordinary local election on whether to oust their ethnic Albanian mayors in a territory riddled with tension.

The vote could have paved the way for the election of Serbs to the mayoral posts after the appointment of the ethnic Albanians sparked violence in the Belgrade-backed region with a Serb majority.