Central Election Commission (CEC) has ordered the recount of 24 ballot boxes from Sunday’s local elections, announced CEC officials today. Of 24 boxes, 21 contain ballots for municipal assemblies and 3 for mayoral elections. CEC said it has received 7,621 ballots through post and that 6,735 have been approved.

Chief of the EU Election Observation Mission, Alojz Peterle, said in a press conference today that Sunday’s local elections in Kosovo took place in a peaceful atmosphere and were free of major incidents. Some of the recurring problems however include outdated voters’ lists which continue to have names of deceased people.

Competitive and well-administered elections in most of Kosovo, while deep concerns persist over the democratic process in Kosovo Serb areas

The Chief Observer, Mr Alojz Peterle, Member of the European Parliament, presented today the preliminary findings of the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) on the 22 October Municipal and Mayoral Elections in Kosovo.

"Bearing in mind part of the preliminary results released by the CEC and some of the results we have taken from other political options, we seriously doubt the regularity of counting votes in many polling stations," the CI Central Kosovo said in a statement.

CI Central Kosovo suspects falsification of election results, reports KIM radio.

The situation on the election day was calm, KFOR announcement said, KIM Radio reported.

“With its convincing victory, Srpska Lista once again showed it enjoys the trust of almost all Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija,” a mayor of Mitrovica North and President of Srpska Lista, Goran Rakic said to KIM Radio.

“Srpska Lista was not our opponent, our opponent was the entire Government of Serbia with all its resources. When you take that into consideration, our result is not that bad,” leader of the Civic Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic said to KIM Radio.

Serbian Minister of Defence, Aleksandar Vulin congratulated victory of Srpska Lista in municipalities with Serb majority, in local Kosovo elections, Tanjug news agency reported.