The ruling party in Kosovo, Vetevendosje, has once again emerged victorious in the election, but they will need to form a government alongside rival coalition parties.
Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, expressed confidence in the elections, stating that he would not participate in the government unless he won an outright majority. However, this was not achievable. Preliminary results, after counting 73% of the votes, showed that the ruling party had secured 41.99% of the total votes. Out of 120 parliamentary seats, 10 are reserved for the ethnic Serb community in Kosovo.
The result was received as a drop of more than 50% since the ruling party’s win in 2021. In light of that, as Kurti will still be leading as Prime Minister, he proclaimed his victory by saying “We are the first party, the winning party that will create the next government,” Kurti told reporters. “We will continue to finish the work that we have started.”
The Results
On Sunday, the election commission apologized to the Kosovo public as the software for collecting data for the election was down, and the data was collected manually, and published in the early hours of Monday. The head of the election commission Kreshnik Radoniqi said, ““We apologise to all Kosovo citizens,”
The results showed that Vetevendosje received approximately 41%, the opposition Democratic Party of Kosovo garnered 21.8% of the votes, and the Democratic League of Kosovo obtained around 17.8% of the votes.
The opposition leader, Lumir Abdixhiku, provided a vote count from his party’s perspective. He reported that Vetevendosje received 39.08% of the votes, the Democratic Party of Kosovo secured second place with 21.84%, and the Democratic League of Kosovo came in third with 18.14%.
However, Kurti finalized his win among supporters in the capital Pristina, on February 9, 2025. The celebration was done with the waving of Albanian Flags, and the setting off of fireworks he said, “Preliminary results show one true, exact, and clear thing, and this is that the Vetevendosje movement has won the elections of February 9, 2025.”
The Rivals and Tensions
The primary source of unrest in Kosovo is its relationship with Serbia. Albin Kurti is one of the first leaders of Kosovo to complete a full term in office, and his tenure has received both criticism and praise. Kurti’s decision to ban the Serbian Dinar and to limit the transfers for ethnic Serbs who rely on Belgrade’s social services and payments to Serbia was viewed as a critical measure by Western nations.
The US, NATO, and EU organizations intervened to urge the Kosovo government to refrain from any actions that could destabilize peace between the two ethnic groups. This request followed incidents where NATO peacekeepers were assaulted by rioting Serbs and explosions targeted Kosovo’s power plants last year, stemming from ongoing tensions between Kosovo and Serbia.
Kurti’s rough relations with the US and Europe leave the opposition with one more criticism, other include his inability to provide sufficient health care and education for Kosovo citizens, according to expert analysts.
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