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.

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. 

Regardless of whether they will remain the ten guaranteed seats in the Kosovo parliament, after the counting of conditional votes (final official figures Kosovo CEC will announce on July 10^th), the Serbian community in Kosovo will certainly have ministerial and deputy minister positions whoever forms the Kosovo government. These positions are guaranteed by the Constitution of Kosovo, namely Article 96, which refers to the ministries and community representation, which is practically copied provision from the Ahtisaari Plan.

Analyst Dusan Janjic said that the request of the Albanian opposition party Self-determination, on the termination of the dialogue with Belgrade, is unrealistic. 

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.

The turnout of Serbs in Kosovo elections was unexpectedly good, for example in Leposavić/Leposaviç 50 per cent of citizens cast the ballots, 200 more than in local elections. Good turnout was also registered in other municipalities in northern Kosovo, the call of Serbian government was beneficial, Serbs in the north are listening to what their state is telling them and most of them behave accordingly, said Mayor of Leposavić/Leposaviç Municipality and member of the steering group for implementation of Brussels agreement, Dragan Jablanović to Vesti.

The front page editorial of this daily considers that political parties which lost these elections rushed to reach an agreement to lead the country, prior to the publication of final election results. According to this daily, this is a ridiculous and dangerous step for the Kosovo.

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."

 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.

According to preliminary results from the processed 2,352, out of 2,374 polling stations in Kosovo, the Democratic Party of Kosovo won Kosovo early parliamentary elections with 30.69 percent of the vote. Threshold was crossed by the Democratic League of Kosovo, the Self-Determination Movement, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo and the Initiative for Kosovo. Pacolli's Alliance for Kosovo with 4.65 percent remained below the threshold as well as the Serbian list with 4.21 percent of the vote.