Following June 11’s general election, the Central Election Commission (CEC) has released preliminary results showing a change in political party support on a national level. For the first time in its history, LDK has fallen to third place.
Elections Fail to Cure Kosovo’s Political Maladies (Balkan Insight)
CEC submits to President Thaci decision on certification of election results (Kosovapress)
Central Election Commission (CEC) has submitted decision to certify election results to President Hashim Thaci whose duty is now to call the first session of the Assembly within 30 days. A copy of the CEC decision was also sent to the Assembly of Kosovo.
Nine of ten seats for the Serbian List in the Assembly of Kosovo (KIM radio)
In the extraordinary parliamentary elections in Kosovo, the Serbian List won 44 578 votes or 6.12%. The Serbian List will have 9 out of 10 parliamentary seats, KIM radio reports.
Members of the Serbian List who will represent the interests of Serbian people in the Assembly of Kosovo are: Slavko Simić, Miljana Nikolić, Zoran Mojsilović, Igor Simić, Verica Ćeranić, Saša Milosavljević, Jasmina Živković, Jelana Bontić and Srđan Mitrović, reads the statement of the Serbian List.
1,300 invalid votes of Serbs from the North Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti)
The Supreme Court of Kosovo rejected the appeal of the Serbian list, that is, the request to accept votes of about 1,300 voters who voted with Serbian ID cards in the municipalities north of Kosovo, reported Vecernje Novosti unofficially.
Daily Vecernje Novosti write that this court will announce today the final decision on all appeals, after which the final results of the election will be announced.
Daka: Ballot recount affected results of three candidates (Kosovapress)
AFP: Political blockade in Kosovo after the election, re-vote possible (Blic, Beta, AFP)
The official results of the parliamentary elections in Kosovo "suggest a political blockade," the French news agency AFP assessed last tonight.
AFP explained that "no one can form the government independently, and different political forces look deeply divided."
According to political scientist Bekim Kupini, Kosovo is "at the brink of a knife", and, in his opinion, AFP quotes "the most likely outcome of the crisis is call for a new elections."
Simić: Serbian List will file a complaint due to the election results in Kosovo (NMagazin, Blic, Beta)
According to the final results, the Serbian List has won nine out of ten seats in the Assembly guaranteed for the Serb community.
President of the Serbian List Slavko Simić said late last night that they will complain about the final results of the early parliamentary elections in Kosovo, because, as he said, they think that more than one thousand conditional votes were annulled.
The collapse of political strongholds (Kosovo 2.0)
Changes in voting trends in Ferizaj, Kacanik and Fushe Kosove.
Ymeri: The will of Serb voters got distorted by Serbian List (Klan Kosova)
Vetevendosje leader, Visar Ymeri, wrote on Facebook that the will of Kosovo Serb voters was distorted in 11 June elections through the pressure exercised by the Serbian List. “Initially, this was exercised on other local Serb parties by forcing them to withdraw from elections such as the case with one party who withdrew its list of candidates following pressure from Belgrade. At the same time, the Liberal Party led by Slobodan Petrovic undertook no election campaign at all as a result of open intimidation by the Serbian List”, Ymeri wrote.