PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Preliminary results showed that Prime Minister Albin Kurti ’s party won Kosovo's parliamentary election Sunday but without the majority needed to govern alone, as talks on normalizing ties with rival Serbia remain stalled and foreign funding for one of Europe's poorest countries is in question.
BYPRISTINA, Kosovo — Preliminary results showed that Prime Minister Albin Kurti ’s party won Kosovo's parliamentary election Sunday but without the majority needed to govern alone, as talks on normalizing ties with rival Serbia remain stalled and foreign funding for one of Europe's poorest countries is in question.
“The people won. Vetevendosje! won. We are the winning subject who is to form the next Cabinet,” Kurti told journalists while groups of celebrating supporters. This is the first time since independence in 2008 that Kosovo’s parliament has completed a full four-year mandate. It is the ninth parliamentary vote in Kosovo since the end of the 1998-1999 war between Serbian government forces and ethnic Albanian separatists that pushed Serbian forces out following a 78-day NATO air campaign. Serbia does not recognize Kosovo’s independence.
Some 2 million eligible voters will elect 120 lawmakers from 1,280 candidates from 27 political groupings. One independent candidate is also running. The Kosovar parliament has 20 seats reserved for minorities regardless of election results, 10 of which are for the Serb minority. Kosovars abroad started voting Saturday at 43 diplomatic missions. Some 20,000 voters from the diaspora of nearly 100,000 were casting ballots, with the rest voting by mail.
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