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An election is a official group decision-making procedure by which people decides that an individual to have public office. Elections have stood the usual instrument by which current representative democracy has put to use ever since the 17th century. Elections may fill-out offices in the legislature, in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This procedure is also used in many other private and business organizations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations






Since the Kosovo War, the nation has held seven parliamentary races, one like clockwork, in 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2017 and this week 2019. The initial two were regulated by the Organization for Security and Co-activity in Europe (OSCE) and the subsequent two checked by the global network, with the OSCE and other watching gatherings reasoning that these decisions were commonly reasonable and free..Under Kosovo's Constitutional Framework, which built up the PISG, decisions were to be held every three years by the Assembly. The Assembly at that point thus chooses a president and executive. The Assembly had 120 individuals chosen for a three-year term: 100 individuals chosen by relative portrayal, and 20 individuals speaking to national minorities (10 Serbian, 4 Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian, 3 Bosniak, 2 Turkish and 1 Gorani). Under the new Constitution of 2008, the ensured seats for Serbs and different minorities continues as before, anyway furthermore they may increase additional seats as indicated by a lot of the vote. Kosovo hosts a multi-gathering framework, with a few gatherings and the arrangement of corresponding portrayal and ensured minority portrayal implies that nobody gathering is probably going to have a parliamentary larger part. (Besides, a base number of Ministers were and stay saved for Serbs and different minorities)




2017

Early elections were held in Kosovo on 11 June 2017. The elections were triggered by a motion of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Isa Mustafa on 10 May 2017 by a vote of 78–34.


2014

The 2014 Parliamentary elections were held in Kosovo on 8 June 2014. Prime Minister Isa Mustafa.


2010

The final results issued by the Central Election Committee on 30 January 2011 are: Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi.




CEC - The Central Election Commission 

The Central Election Commission (CEC), established in accordance with Article 139 of the Constitution of Kosovo, is a permanent independent body.

The CEC is accountable for arranging and realizing elections in Kosovo. The job of the CEC is to control the appointive procedure through the selection of Electoral Rules and, managing the constituent procedure in all regards, to guarantee that decisions fulfill universal guidelines. 

The CEC comprises of eleven (11) individuals: the Chairperson and ten (10) different individuals. The Chairperson is named by the President of the Republic of Kosovo and is chosen among the judges of the Supreme Court. The command of the CEC Chairman is (7) years, beginning from the date set for the declaration of the arrangement by the President of Kosovo. The other ten (10) individuals from the CEC will be selected because of the assignments of the six (6) biggest parliamentary gatherings of the Assembly of Kosovo and four (4) individuals speaking to the little networks in Kosovo.

The Upcoming Elections


The elections for a new prime minister and assembly are set to happen on 10/6/2019. These elections are early since the last prime minister Ramush Haradinaj resigned due to being called to the Hauge - The International Criminal Court - for allegedly committing war crimes.

According to KQZ (The Central Election Commission), there are 25 Political Subjects running including 20 Political Parties, 4 Coalitions and 1 Independent Candidate. There are 1.937.869 registered voters in total or 111.733 new voters in compareson to the elections held in October 22nd 2017. 

There is going to be 895 voting centers with around 50 thousand observers and commissioners.

These elections will determine the 120 seats of the Parliament, 100 of them will be filled from the Political Subjects, 10 seats are earmarked for the Serb community and 10 for the representatives of the other communities. 

In the candidacy for prime minister there are 5 people running. Vjosa Osmani from LDK, Albin Kurti from Vetëvendosje, Fatmir Limaj from the NISMA-AKR-PD Coalition , Kadri Veseli from PDK and Ramush Haradinaj from the AAK-PSD Coalition. 

It is very difficult to make predictions for the winner as all the pre-election ballot have shown close numbers. However, these elections will go down in history as the first time a woman (Vjosa Osmani) has run for prime-minister in Kosovo








Preliminary Election Results

  















The early  elections of the Kosovo's assembly took place this Sunday (6th of October). As it can be seen in the charts, the preliminary results indicate that the leading party is Vetëvendosje with the lead of 25.50%, with the runner upper being LDK with 24.83% of the votes. We need to keep in mind that these are only the preliminary results and the conditional votes, votes sent through the postal service and the votes of the special needs people have not been counted yet. However, this result is not expected to change, meaning that Vetëvendosje will stay in the lead with its prime-minister candidate, Albin Kurti.


“The people decided that the Vetevendosje movement has led and will lead change,” (qtd.in  Isufi par. 12).


According to EU Representative Viola von Cramon-Taubadel these elections have been successful will only minor errors. They count about 80,000+ more voters than the previous elections. The opening of the voting centers and the counting of the votes has been fair. She cites that the main problem has been for the people voting in the North since the Serb List played an unfair game with the other parties by pressuring and forcing the serb kosovar/e citizens to vote for them (Sulaj par. 4)


Just as predicted in the "The Upcoming Elections" segment the votes were very close between VV and LDK, meaning that forming a government won't be easy. In order for Mr. Kurti to become Prime-Minister, after he gets nominated by the President, Hashim Thaqi his proposed government should get majority of the votes in the assembly (meaning 61). This is going to be close to impossible if not some kind of coalition is formed. Mr. Kurti has declared that he is opened to cooperation, especially with the second most voted party, LDK and his counter-candidate Vjosa Osmani.


All of these processes will require time, so we will only know for sure the next assembly of Kosova during the upcoming month. 

 








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