The Central Election Commission (CEC) published on Thursday the number of votes won by candidates for deputies of the Assembly of Kosovo in the parliamentary elections of February 9, after counting over 90 percent of the votes at polling stations.
According to the results, the leaders of the main parties and the candidates for the position of prime minister are ranked as follows:
Albin Kurti, leader of the Vetëvendosje Movement and candidate for prime minister – 259,532 votes
Bedri Hamza, candidate for prime minister from the Democratic Party of Kosovo – 150,294 votes
Memli Krasniqi, leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo – 85,293 votes
Lumir Abdixhiku, leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo and candidate for prime minister – 109,202 votes
Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo and candidate for prime minister – 37,752 votes
Zllatan Elek, leader of the Serbian List – 9,354 votes.
The published result does not include conditional votes, votes from people with special needs, and over 80,000 votes from the diaspora.
The Vetëvendosje Movement (LVV) – the ruling party – came first in these elections, with 40.80 percent of the vote, followed by the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) with 22.03 percent of the vote, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) with 17.63 percent of the vote, the coalition between the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and the Social Democratic Initiative received 7.46 percent of the vote, and the Serbian List 4.61 percent of the vote.
Other parties have won smaller percentages of votes.
Under the new Election Law, the votes of candidates for MPs are counted separately in the Municipal Counting Centers. This process has started late, while election monitoring organizations have criticized the CEC itself for not being well enough prepared for the process./ REL (A2 Televizion)