The Party for Democratic Action, led in Presevo by Ardita Sinani, has won the most mandates in the municipal assembly of Preševo, in the repeated local elections, also held in the south of Serbia, with an Albanian majority, on June 2.

Sinani is an advisor to the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti.

The chairman of the Electoral Commission in Preševo, Alban Mehmeti, told for Radio Free Europe that the party led by Sinan will have 11 seats in the municipal assembly.

The Alternative for Change of Shqiprim Arifi, and the Democratic Party of Albanians, led by Ragmi Mustafa, won eight seats each.

The Movement for Reform of Sami Salihu has won six seats.

The Alliance for the Valley, led by Armend Ali and Ilir Sadri, won three seats.

The Democratic Union of Albanians, headed by Naser Azir, won a seat, as did the “Aleksandar Vučić- Preševo Tomorrow” list, linked to the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

Before the elections, the municipality of Preševo ​​was administered by a Temporary Authority, appointed by the Government of Serbia.

The municipality of Preševo ​​has over 33,000 inhabitants and 61,000 of the Albanians registered in Serbia, in the last population census, who live there.

There are also Albanians in Bujanoc and Medvegja, two other municipalities in the south of Serbia, inhabited by Albanians.

The three municipalities in that part make up the so-called Preševo Valley.

In the local elections in Bujanoc, the Front for Change won the most votes, 19.17 percent, according to the data of the official of the municipal Electoral Commission, Fejzi Beqiri.

The candidate of the Party for Democratic Action, Ragmi Mustafi, advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Besnik Bislim, has won the fewest votes of all the Albanian parties that participated in the elections in Bujanoc.