{"id":22987,"date":"2021-10-18T14:21:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T12:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=22987"},"modified":"2021-10-18T14:23:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T12:23:25","slug":"kurti-kosovo-excelled-in-the-organization-of-its-local-elections-vitia-will-be-mayor-after-runoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kurti-kosovo-excelled-in-the-organization-of-its-local-elections-vitia-will-be-mayor-after-runoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurti: Kosovo excelled in its electoral organization; Vitia will be mayor after runoffs \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kosovo\u2019s PM, Albin Kurti made his first public appearance after the country\u2019s local elections, during which he praised Sunday\u2019s electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>He called the comparisons being drawn between LVV\u2019s victory on February 14\u2019s general elections and the results of the local elections, irrelevant, because according to him, the lists of municipal candidates cannot be compared to the lists during the parliamentary elections, which were led by names such as the current president, Vjosa Osmani or even Kurti, who would go on to become Kosovo\u2019s prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Kurti added that even though the Self-Determination Movement (LVV) was expecting to score much higher in these elections, the results according to the prime minister, have been satisfactory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c10 years ago, we came in third. 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He called the comparisons being drawn between LVV\u2019s victory on February 14\u2019s general elections and the results of the local elections, irrelevant, because according to him, the lists of municipal candidates cannot be compared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":22988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kurti: Kosovo excelled in its electoral organization; Vitia will be mayor after runoffs \u00a0 - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kurti-kosovo-excelled-in-the-organization-of-its-local-elections-vitia-will-be-mayor-after-runoffs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kurti: Kosovo excelled in its electoral organization; Vitia will be mayor after runoffs \u00a0 - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kosovo\u2019s PM, Albin Kurti made his first public appearance after the country\u2019s local elections, during which he praised Sunday\u2019s electoral process. 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