"Agreements which we concluded with the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians in Subotica and the Democratic Party in Sombor envisage that in case of the victory of their candidates in said towns, DSHV members will become deputy mayors," DSHV president Petar Kuntic told Hina on Tuesday. According to the results of the elections, an ethnic Hungarian will be mayor of Subotica, and a DS member mayor of Sombor.
The biggest headway has been made in Sombor where the ethnic Croat community did not have its representative in local authorities since the early 1990s, Kuntic said.
The DSHV will have five councillors in the assembly of Vojvodina's second largest city, Subotica, and two councillors in the assembly of Sombor.
Although the Serb Radical Party, led by UN war crimes tribunal indictee Vojislav Seselj, has strengthened its position in some local communities and in the Vojvodina parliament, Kuntic does not believe that the status of ethnic Croats will worsen.