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The Self-Determination Movement won the snap parliamentary elections in Kosovo on Sunday, with 48.17 percent of the vote based on 99.88 votes processed, the Central Election Commission (CEC) announced, Kossev reports.
According to the CEC, it is followed by the Kosovo Democratic Party with 17.71 percent, the Kosovo Democratic Alliance with 13.49 percent, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo with 7.60 percent, the Serbian List with 4, 57 percent and the Social Democratic Initiative with 2.57 percent. percent of votes.
Polling stations closed at 7 p.m. and, as the CEC announced, turnout was 47 percent, Kossev reports.
The Chairman of the Serbian List, Goran Rakić, announced that the list won all ten terms in early parliamentary elections, which are guaranteed for Serbian representatives in the Kosovo Assembly.
About 65,000 people went to the polls in Serbian areas of Kosovo, five percent more than in the last elections, Rakic said.
“The elections were held in special circumstances due to the pandemic, due to the hundreds of tricks that Pristina wanted to reduce the strength of the Serbian people, that is, the strength of the Serbian List.” We thwarted their intentions with unity, “Rakic said.
The citizens elected 120 deputies from the eighth convocation of the Assembly. 28 political entities registered for the elections, of which 21 were political parties, two coalitions and five civic initiatives. Three parties of the Serbian community ran for the elections: the Serbian List, the Serbian Democratic Alliance and the Civic Initiative for Freedom, Justice and Survival (GI SPO). Polling stations close at 7 pm A spokesman for the CEC said the process was monitored by some 30,000 accredited observers. The vote was carried out solely with a Kosovo identification card.
See how Election Day was on our blog.