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.

Representatives of the Srpska election list south of the Ibar River in Kosovo will invite people to go to the polls on June 8, it was reported late on Tuesday.

 At the same time, those from the same list in the north will not continue to campaign.

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.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) has reported that all election preparations have been completed. The total number of monitors in the elections is 27,733. “The ballot-printing process has been finalized, and all election materials are of high quality, as they were in the 2013 local elections”, says an announcement from the CEC.

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.

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 municipality of Leposaviq/Leposavic will boycott Kosovo’s 8 June parliamentary elections. This municipality’s leaders said that the necessary conditions for elections are not in place. Also, political parties and candidates will not be allowed to campaign in the territory of the Leposaviq/Leposavic municipality.

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.

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.

Serbs displaced from Kosovo filed 9 172 complaints for registration in the electoral roll. Election panel for appeals adopted only 206, it was confirmed to RTK2.

The election panel for appeals said that they rejected appeals due to incomplete documentation, as they did not contain important personal information.

"The appeals were rejected because they were not complete, important personal documents were missing, concerning Article 90 of the electoral law, identity card, passport, refugee card," said Mul Desku, President of the Secretariat election panel for the appeal.