{"id":24927,"date":"2021-11-12T15:34:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T14:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=24927"},"modified":"2021-11-12T15:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T14:34:11","slug":"on-sunday-kosovo-heads-to-runoffs-for-the-2021-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/on-sunday-kosovo-heads-to-runoffs-for-the-2021-local-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"On Sunday, Kosovo heads to runoffs for the 2021 Local Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today will be the last day of the electoral campaign for the second round of voting in Kosovo&#8217;s 2021 local elections. Citizens will be heading to the polls in 21 communes this Sunday, November 14, in order to elect the new mayors of these municipalities.<\/p>\n<p>In the majority of the 21 communes heading to runoffs, the face-off will be amongst candidates of Albin Kurti\u2019s LVV (Self-determination movement) and Lumir Abdixhiku\u2019s LDK (Democratic Alliance of Kosovo).<\/p>\n<p>Both leaders of these political subjects have come out in support of their candidates for mayor in each of the remaining communes.<\/p>\n<p>One of the toughest races will be in Prishtina, where LVV\u2019s Arben Vitia (who received 45.4% of votes in the first round) will go head-to-head with LDK\u2019s Perparim Rama (with 29.17% of votes in the first round).<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, in Prizren, LVV\u2019s Mytaher Haskuk \u2013 with 40.41% of votes in the first round \u2013 will race against PDK\u2019s Shaqir Totaj \u2013 who won 31.36% of votes in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Gjakova will be another tough commune to win, by either Ardian Gjini from AKK (45.76%) or Mimoza Kusari-Lila from LVV (37.20%).<\/p>\n<p>Gjilan, Podujeva, Drenas and Kacanik are amongst the other prominent communes that will determine the fate of the candidates running in the race for mayor.<\/p>\n<p>During the first round of the local elections held in Kosovo on October 17, there was a turnout of about 42.50%.<\/p>\n<p>Political subjects were able to claim victory in 17 of the communes after the first round and the remaining 21, will head to runoffs this upcoming Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling party \u2013 LVV (Self-determination movement) &#8211; hasn\u2019t won in any of the communes so far, but will be racing in 12 of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/balkan-talks\/2021\/10\/15\/in-focus-kosovo-elections-prishtina-the-main-battlefield-for-vv-vs-ldk-match\/\">In focus: Kosovo elections, Prishtina \u2013 the main battlefield for VV vs. LDK match<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2021\/11\/08\/political-parties-launch-campaign-for-second-round-of-local-elections-in-kosovo\/\">Political parties launch campaign for second round of local elections in Kosovo<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2021\/10\/28\/cec-announces-results-of-2021-local-elections-in-kosovo\/\">CEC announces results of 2021 Local Elections in Kosovo<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today will be the last day of the electoral campaign for the second round of voting in Kosovo&#8217;s 2021 local elections. Citizens will be heading to the polls in 21 communes this Sunday, November 14, in order to elect the new mayors of these municipalities. In the majority of the 21 communes heading to runoffs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":24928,"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>On Sunday, Kosovo heads to runoffs for the 2021 Local Elections - 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\/on-sunday-kosovo-heads-to-runoffs-for-the-2021-local-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"On Sunday, Kosovo heads to runoffs for the 2021 Local Elections - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today will be the last day of the electoral campaign for the second round of voting in Kosovo&#8217;s 2021 local elections. 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