{"id":22884,"date":"2021-10-18T01:01:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T23:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=22884"},"modified":"2021-10-18T14:04:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T12:04:46","slug":"live-results-vote-counting-begins-in-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/live-results-vote-counting-begins-in-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"RESULTS: Over half of Kosovo&#8217;s communes head to runoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political subjects running in Kosovo&#8217;s local elections have been able to declare a win in 17 communes, but the 21 remaining communes will have to go to runoffs and settle on results after the second round of voting, seeing that candidates weren&#8217;t able to succeed in achieving the necessary 50% + 1 threshold prescribed by the majoritarian system.<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary results, which include 99.8 % of ballots, the ruling party &#8211; the Self-Determination Movement (LVV) &#8211; hasn\u2019t been able to win the city halls of any communes in Kosovo, but it will head to a runoff in 12 of them.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Serbian List won in a total of 9 communes in the country: Leposaviq, Zubin Potok, Zve\u00e7an, North Mitrovica, Gracanice, Novoberd, Shterpc, Ranillug and Partesh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/zgjedhjet2021.org\/sq\/mayr\/r\/20\" width=\"100%\" height=\"790px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Democratic Party of Kosovo won 5, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo won 3 and the Democratic League of Kosovo won 2. Meanwhile the ruling majority, Vetevendosje has not been able to establish a clear victory in any of the municipalities during the first round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runoffs will be held in the following communes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prishtina\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Arben Vitia from Vetevendosje and Perparim Rama from Democratic League of Kosovo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prizren<\/strong> \u2013 Mytaher Haskuka from Vetevendosje and Shaqir Totaj from the Democratic Party of Kosovo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gjakova<\/strong> \u2013 Ardian Gjini from the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo and Mimoza Kusari from Vetevendosje<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gjilan<\/strong> \u2013 Lutfi Haziri from the Democratic League of Kosovo and Alban Hyseni from Vetevendosje<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main municipalities where the winner has been declared:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peja<\/strong> \u2013 Gazmend Muhaxheri from the Democratic League has secured over 60% of the votes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ferizaj<\/strong> \u2013 Agim Aliu from the Democratic Party is leading with over 62%<\/p>\n<p><strong>South Mitrovica<\/strong> \u2013 Bedri Hamza from the Democratic Party is in the lead with 54%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hani i Elezit<\/strong>\u2013 Mehmet Ballazi from PDK was able to beat the previous mayor, independent candidate, Rufki Suma<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lipjan<\/strong>\u2013 Won by LDK&#8217;s candidate, Imri Ahmeti<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suharek\u00eb-\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Won by AAK&#8217;s candiadate, Bali Muharremaj<\/p>\n<p><strong>De\u00e7an-\u00a0<\/strong>Won by candidate, AAK&#8217;s candidate, Bashkim Ramosaj.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sk\u00ebnderaj: <\/strong>Democratic Party of Kosovo with candidate Fadil Nuka<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ka\u00e7anik:\u00a0<\/strong>PDK&#8217;s candidate, Besim Iliazi took the lead in this commune.<\/p>\n<p><strong>List of communes wining in the first round:<\/strong>\u00a0De\u00e7an (AAK), Mitrovica e Jugut (PDK), Leposaviq (Lista Serbe), Lipjan (LDK), Novob\u00ebrda (Serbian List), Peja (LDK), Sht\u00ebrpca (Lista Serbe), Suhareka (AAK), Ferizaji (PDK), Zubin Potoku (Serbian List), Zve\u00e7ani (Serbian List), Hani i Elezit (PDK), Gra\u00e7anica (Serbian List), Ranillugu (Serbian List), Parteshi (Serbian List), dhe Mitrovica e Veriut (Serbian List), Skenderaj (PDK).<\/p>\n<p><strong>List of communes heading to runoffs:\u00a0<\/strong>Gjakova (AAK-LVV), Gjilani (LVV-LDK), Dragashi (PDK-LDK), Klina (AAK-PDK), Kamenica (PSD-LVV), Podujeva (LVV-LDK), Prishtina (LVV-LDK), Prizreni (LVV-PDK), Vitija (LDK-LVV), Vushtrria (PDK-LDK), Malisheva (Nisma-PDK), Juniku (AAK-LDK) dhe Mamusha (KDTP-KATP), Gllogovc (PDK-DD), Kllokot (Lista Serbe-GI SNS), Istog (LDK-AAK), Shtime (PDK-LVV), Rahovec (AAK-LVV), Fush\u00eb Kosova (LDK-LVV), Obiliqi (IQO-LVV) dhe Ka\u00e7anik (PDK-LVV).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political subjects running in Kosovo&#8217;s local elections have been able to declare a win in 17 communes, but the 21 remaining communes will have to go to runoffs and settle on results after the second round of voting, seeing that candidates weren&#8217;t able to succeed in achieving the necessary 50% + 1 threshold prescribed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":22960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - 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