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The decision has to be respected (Kosova Sot)

The front-page editorial of this daily notes that despite the announcement of the Constitutional Court yesterday to have reached the decision on President Atifete Jahjaga’s request to interpret the compatibility of two articles of the Constitution, there are indications that opposition coalition will not respect the verdict. This daily notes that disrespect of the decision of the Constitutional Court would have been the first one since its creation and stresses that verdicts of this Court have even brought down two Presidents of Kosovo.

Vulin: Serbs in Kosovo Assembly to justify the trust of people (RTK2)

Minister for Labor and Social Welfare in the Serbian government and former minister in charge for Kosovo and Metohija Aleksandar Vulin said to RTK2 in Gračanica/Graçanicë that he expects future representatives of Serbs in Kosovo Assembly to be responsible and to justify huge trust they received. Asked to comment on number of seats received by the Serbian List on recently held parliamentary elections, Vulin said: “The concept is totally unclear to me, which says that number of those who vote is irrelevant.

What Vucic told the Serbs from Kosovo? (Vesti online)

A meeting between Kosovo Serbs and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, which was postponed several times, was held in Belgrade on Tuesday. Representatives of the Serbian List which won the most votes in the recent Kosovo elections and municipal presidents spoke with Vucic about the future unified position. Still, the prime minister didn’t, as expected, stand with them while Marko Djuric told the media about what was discussed at the meeting.

Petrovic: We will request interpretation of the Election law (KiM Radio)

President of the Independent Liberal Party (SLS), Slobodan Petrovic said that after the Central Election Commission (CEC) publishes the official results, the Serbian List will request interpretation of the law related to the MPs’ mandates. As he stated, it remained unclear whether it is necessary to cross the threshold of 5 percent, in order to get additional mandates.  "We will appeal.

Thaçi: PDK will reestablish the new government (indeksonline)

Kosovo’s outgoing Prime Minister, Hashim Thaçi, spoke today during the meeting with the governing cabinet about the flow of the elections.

“Also, allow me to congratulate all institutions which are currently dealing with post-electoral managing process, Central Election Commission and all the other mechanisms, for their work on concluding this phase of election process, after organizing the best, fair, free, democratic and transparent elections after the war in Kosovo,” said Thaçi.

Conditional votes counted, AKR remains out (Koha)

The Count and Results Centre has concluded the process of counting 22,000 conditional votes. Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) has managed to pass the election threshold as it turns out it won 1,110 votes from the conditional ballots but New Kosovo Alliance (AKR) will remain outside of the Assembly of Kosovo as it won 1,063 votes. At the same time, recount of 410 ballot boxes is expected to be concluded today.

Jevtic: Serbs won’t have more than 10 guaranteed seats (RTK2)

Despite the fact that Serbian political subjects will pass the 5% election threshold, Serbs won’t have more than 10 guaranteed seats, said Minister for Return and Communities, Dalibor Jevtic to RTK2. “There is still a room for political dialogue through the process of interpretation of the old election low. I want to believe that we will manage to find a solution in order that Serbs have more than 10 guaranteed seats in the next legislative magnate,” said Jevtic.

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Concerns about the privatization process in Kosovo (Danas)

Interview: Samuel Zbogar, Special Representative and Head of the EU Office in Kosovo “The European Union closely monitored parliamentary elections through its observers and we can express our satisfaction with their regularity. We monitor closely current election debate, but it is clear that they are entirely internal matter of Kosovo, as long they are based on the laws and procedures.

The mandates are still in the mist (Vecernje Novosti)

Who will be the Serbian MP in the Kosovo parliament will be clear soon, because it is expected that Central Election Commission (CEC) completes counting the votes of displaced persons and conditional votes.  Regardless of the number of mandates for the Serbian List, they will not be assigned according to the coalition agreement. The voters, beside the vote for the List, had to vote for one up to five candidates.

Vlasi: Diplomats in Kosovo will not impose a prime minister (Danas)

Political analyst Azem Vllasi claims that international diplomatic representatives in Kosovo will not allow Kosovo to go for repeated elections, however that doesn’t mean that they will impose the solution with regards who will form the government. “International representatives will not allow repeated elections, using their leverage within the frames allowed by Kosovo Constitution,” said Vlasi to agency telegrafi.com.