PRISTINA - Kosovo's Central Election Commission (CEC) published Tuesday the final results of the January 18 snap mayoral election in the Serb-majority town of Gracanica in central Kosovo-Metohija.

The new mayor will be Vladeta Kostic, the candidate fielded by the Citizens' Initiative Srpska. According to the CEC results, Kostic received 64.83 percent of the vote, or 4,784 votes in total.

The snap election for mayor of Gracanica was held because former mayor Branimir Stojanovic had been appointed to the post of deputy prime minister of Kosovo.