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IMC: Minor violations by the media in covering election campaign (Telegrafi)

Independent Media Commission (IMC) today presented the preliminary report on the media monitoring during parliamentary election campaign. The IMC found violation of provisions of the Law on General Elections, specifically of article 49 which describes the way a political advertising is identified. However, as these violations were minor, the media concerned were informed of their violations and through a better intercommunication they avoided being sanctioned. IMC announced that the overall reporting during election campaign was fair and unbiased.

In Serbia Haradinaj charged with at least 60 murders (Blic)

A year and a half after the Hague Tribunal has released him from war crimes charges for the second time Ramus Haradinaj has the opportunity to sit again in the seat of Kosovo Prime Minister.  In 2005 Haradinaj was occupying the post of Kosovo Prime Minister but left it only a hundred days later after the charges for war crimes had been raised against him. “I will work for European and economically developed Kosovo in which law and order shall rule. I undertake the obligation that every citizen of Kosovo feel free,” Haradinaj told the Express daily in Pristina.

Janjic: Request of the Self-Determination movement is marketing ploy (Blic)

Analyst Dusan Janjic said that the request of the Albanian opposition party Self-determination, on the termination of the dialogue with Belgrade, is unrealistic.  Representatives of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) agreed in Pristina to propose the leader of the Alliance, Ramush Haradinaj for the position of the Prime Minister.

Kuci: If PDK finds no coalition partner, Kosovo will head to new elections (Lajmi)

Deputy leader of Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Hajredin Kuci, who is one of the authors of the Kosovo Constitution, said the agreement reached between opposition parties is anti-constitutional. In a show for Klan Kosova, Kuci said that recent developments have put Kosovo into a hasty political stage. He insisted that the candidate for prime minister should be Hashim Thaci as he won 8 June parliamentary elections.

The great winner, Albin Kurti (Koha Ditore)

Columnist of this daily, Halil Matoshi, praises the leader of Vetëvendosje movement, Albin Kurti, for bringing together the Democratic League of Kosovo, The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo and the Initiative party “in order to say no to extortion, intimidation, corruption and nepotism. To help Kosovo bring back the real values, fatherland determination, knowledge and responsibility."

Election outcome as guideline to continue reconciliation (Tanjug)

 Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sebastian Kurz said that the parliamentary elections in Kosovo, which were carried out with almost no problems, constitute another step toward strengthening of democracy and noted that the outcome provides a clear guideline for the continuation of the reconciliation process with Belgrade. A commendable fact is that unlike in the past, not a single case of use of force or any major irregularities were registered on the election day, he said in a release and added that the continuous increase of Serb participation is another important step toward the r