The leader of an ethnic Croat political party said that Croats in Serbia live in fear because they are viewed as one of the most hated minorities in the country.

Tomislav Zigmanov, leader of the Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina (DSHV) told a Vojvodina Front meeting in Novi Sad that the Croat national minority in Serbia is hated even more than the Albanians. That situation is why Croats in Serbia live in great fear, he said.  

The DSHV was formed in 1990 as a national minority political party advocating Croat minority interests with a pro-European slant. I has one MP in the Serbian parliament and one in the Vojvodina Assembly as well as three seats on the Subotica city council in the north of Vojvodina.