Opposition VV wins Kosovo s snap election on 49 95% support seenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from seenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Kosovo’s February 14 election, the sixth for the country in 14 years, landed the opposition Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) party in first place with 48 percent of the vote, again giving it the opportunity, and challenge, to put together a governing coalition with at least 61 deputies in the country’s 120 seat Parliament. Turnout was around 47 percent. The party’s star has been rising; this is the second election with Vetevendosje claiming the highest percentage of votes and the party led a short-lived coalition government in Kosovo following the October 2019 election.
As the dust settles
In these elections, the reform-oriented, left-of-center and strongly nationalist Vetevendosje party surged well ahead of center-right Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), which received 17 percent. Not quite headless, the PDK is currently led by former foreign minister Enver Hoxhaj, after its two top officials, ex-president Hashim Thaci and his close aide Kadri Veseli resigned to face
3 prime minister candidates from 28 political formations to compete in 120-seat parliament Talha Ozturk | 14.02.2021
BELGRADE, Serbia
Kosovars headed to the polls Sunday to choose new members of the country s 120-seat parliament.
The election is the sixth parliamentary poll for Europe s youngest country since 2008 when it declared independence from Serbia.
It comes after the Constitutional Court ruled the parliamentary vote that saw Avdulah Hoti installed as prime minister was invalid because a lawmaker who made the new government s majority possible, Etem Arifi, was convicted of fraud.
The government elected by 61 deputies in parliament fell after the ruling of the court.
The court asked acting-President Vjosa Osmani to announce the date of early elections within 40 days.
Kosovo to hold snap elections Feb 14 yenisafak.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yenisafak.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Kosovo will hold a snap parliamentary election on February 14, with the Vetëvendosje party of former prime minister Albin Kurti likely to emerge as the largest party. The election takes place less than 18 months after Kosovars last voted for a new parliament. We explain why they are being called the polls again.