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EU observers, the eyes and ears of the elections in Kosovo (kohaonline)

EU has deployed today  dozens of short-term observers who will monitor Kosovo’s parliamentary elections to be held on 8 June. “Today, our short term observers have deployed at respective zones. They will monitor the entire Kosovo, all the municipalities. They will meet with local election officials, local political parties, they will follow some pre-election gatherings, meet with members of civil society, internal observers as well as representatives of media,” said the Spokesperson of this EU monitoring mission, Sarah Crozier.

General elections, a barometer of state maturity (RTKlive)

Based on the up to date campaign, the general elections to be held on 8 June, are the most represented and dynamic in the 15 year history of the free elections in Kosovo, and as such, they will be under a close monitoring of the population and the international community. This will be another test for the Central Election Commission to prove that the success of the local elections was not a coincidence, but a maturity of this institution to manage challenges represented by the elections in Kosovo.

ECAP rejects 9,000 complaints (Kosova Sot)

The Election Complaints and Appeals Panel (ECAP) is reported to have reviewed all complaints, and out of 9,172, only 206 were approved. The rest have been rejected as being groundless. The head of ECAP, Shukri Sylejmani, said the panel reviewed all cases individually and professionally and managed to decide on them before the legal deadline. “Most of the complaints were incomplete and lacked supporting documents and evidence”, said Sylejmani. The complaints were related to voting outside of Kosovo.

CEC: Serbs can get more than 10 seats (Tribuna)

The Central Election Commission (CEC) has approved an instruction detailing procedures for allocating seats at the Kosovo Assembly following the 8 June elections. It specifies that there is a possibility for the Serb community to gain more than the 10 reserved seats if their parties manage to win more than 80,000 votes. The same principle also applies for the other minority communities. CEC officials said the formula can be applied correctly only once election results are confirmed.

The north is not giving in (Zëri)

State symbols have once again created dilemmas for Serb leaders, with regards to whether or not they will participate in Kosovo’s 8 June elections. Srpska candidates from the six municipalities south of the River Ibër/Ibar will continue with pre-election activities, while the four municipalities in the north of Kosovo will not campaign. This was confirmed for Radio Free Europe by the mayor of Mitrovica North, Goran Rakic. He stressed that northern municipalities will not call on their citizens to participate in Sunday’s elections if Pristina does not change its positions.

And where is the union of municipalities? (Vesti)

Belgrade politicians have promised in local elections that they will unify all Serbian municipalities in Kosovo, however six months later there are no traces of that promise. Unity of Serbs - that is a basic message of candidates of Srpska Ticket, where even the opponents in last local elections managed to find the room for themselves. All harsh words have been put behind and they don’t even remember tough words they exchanged.