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Milovic: People did not fail exam, politicians did (New Press Produkcija, KoSSev portal)

After the assassination of Oliver Ivanovic, Mitrovica North is a city without a soul. While Oliver Ivanovic was alive, north of Kosovo and Mitrovica North had their souls. People had hope situation would eventually get better for us and our children. There was optimism, Dragisa Milovic, former mayor of Zvecan municipality and politician said in Slobodno srpski TV broadcast.

Bozidar Dejanovic, new mayor of Klokot (Blic, SRNA)

Srpska Lista candidate, Bozidar Dejanovic is a new mayor of Klokot municipality, the Kosovo Central Election Commission confirmed to the SRNA news agency. The statement was made, following count of the so-called conditional and by-mail ballots. According to SRNA, Dejanovic won 22 votes more, and his opponent Strahinja Spasic won 2 votes, which made total 1042 votes for Dejanovic and 1032 votes for Spasic. With Dejanovic’s result, Srpska Lista achieved victories in all 10 Serb-majority municipalities, Blic daily reported.

Five takeaways from the mayoral runoffs in Kosovo (Prishtina Insight)

By: Blerim Vela The key factors for performance in Sunday’s mayoral runoff elections were candidate choice, local coalitions, campaign and media rhetoric, and rural-urban polarization. On November 19, voters in 19 Kosovo municipalities voted in mayoral runoff elections. The preliminary results were published by the Kosovo Central Election Commission, CEC, before midnight and offered no clear overall winner.

Vetevendosje: Offering transport to voters on elections day, normal (media)

The leader of the Vetevendosje Movement, Visar Ymeri, said today during a press conference that his political party has offered transport to those that he claimed to be identified as Vetevendosje voters. “Of course we identify our voters and these voters accept to be called on election day and be offered by Vetevendosje whatever service they want. This Sunday we also offered transport to those who were not able to acquire it." He added that voters requested their services. Ymeri said Vetevendosje does not fear recounting of votes in Pristina.

Peterle: Tight races for Kosovo’s second round of mayoral elections (Prishtina Insight)

Despite instances of aggressive campaigning, election day was overall calm and orderly, said EU election observers in the preliminary report on Kosovo’s mayoral runoffs. “These were highly competitive elections,” said Alojz Peterle, Chief Observer of the European Union Election Observation Mission to Kosovo, EUEOM, at the publication of the mission’s preliminary report on the second round of mayoral elections. The campaigning atmosphere and voting process was, overall, calm and orderly, he said.

EU Observers: Improvements in voting and counting process required (RTK)

The European Union Election Observation Mission for Kosovo local elections 2017, presented today the report on the election runoff held last Sunday. They assessed that despite some problems, the elections were successful.

Head of the EU Observation Mission, Alojz Peterle, said that EU observers noticed that there were tensions in Gjakova/Djakovic and Mitrovica municipalities. He added that Central Election Commission should see to the procedures that should be followed for these cases.

Peterle: The support of the Serbian List to the opposition candidate is an unusual event (KIM radio)

Head of EU Monitoring Mission Alojz Peterle says for the KIM radio that the support of the Serbian List to its opponent in Klokot in local elections was an unusual event that could cause technical problems.

Komentarpress portal: From the Office for KiM has arrived untruth about the elections (NMagazin)

According to the preliminary results of the Central Election Commission (CEC), the candidate of the Serbian List Strahinja Spasic has won, a candidate for whom the Office for Kosovo and Metohija claimed that he had given up his candidacy, NMagazin writes by quoting portal Komentarpress.

According to CIK data, 1,030 voters voted for Strahinja Spasic, and 1,020 voters for his opponent Bozidar Dejanovic.

By-mail votes could change result in Klokot (RTK2, Radio Kosovo 2, Kontakt plus radio)

Who would be a new mayor of Klokot, Strahinja Spasic or Bozidar Dejanovic would be known after the counting of all the ballots, Serbian media reported today. Meanwhile, Dragan Petkovic is a new mayor of the Partes municipality. Officially, there were two candidates running for the mayor of Klokot municipality.