Anonymous ID: 490180 Feb. 14, 2021, 7:22 p.m. No.12929746   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9794 >>9804 >>9836 >>9901

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PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s main opposition party appeared headed to a landslide victory in Sunday’s early election of a new parliament held amid the coronavirus pandemic, an economic downturn and stalled negotiations with wartime foe Serbia.

 

Ethnic Serbs and Albanians both struggle to get by in Kosovo

 

With 65% of the votes counted by the central Election Commission, the main governing election body, the left-wing Self-Determination Movement Party, or Vetevendosje, had 48% of the votes. It led two center-right parties — the Democratic Party of Kosovo, or PDK, which had 18%, and the Democratic League of Kosovo, or LDK, with 14%.

 

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-02-14/kosovo-votes-for-new-parliament-amid-pandemic

Anonymous ID: 490180 Feb. 14, 2021, 7:27 p.m. No.12929794   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9817

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Voter turnout was estimated at 47%, which was 2.5% higher than the last election in 2019, according to the Central Election Commission.

 

“Today Kosovo showed how elections should be held, despite the many challenges it faced,” said Valdete Daka, election commission chief.

 

Within two months of taking their seats in parliament, Kosovo’s lawmakers must elect the country’s president. If no candidate is elected after three rounds of voting, the country might see an early presidential election.

Anonymous ID: 490180 Feb. 14, 2021, 7:30 p.m. No.12929817   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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The election was scheduled after Kosovo’s Constitutional Court rendered invalid a vote by a convicted lawmaker who helped confirm Hoti’s Cabinet named in June after Kurti was removed as prime minister.

 

Populists third party the duopoly