{"id":76269,"date":"2025-02-11T19:27:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T18:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=76269"},"modified":"2025-02-11T22:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T21:04:49","slug":"kosovo-cec-80-of-registered-diaspora-voters-cast-their-ballots-for-the-february-9-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo-cec-80-of-registered-diaspora-voters-cast-their-ballots-for-the-february-9-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosovo CEC: 80% of Registered Diaspora Voters Cast Their Ballots for the February 9 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Kosovo has announced that 80.1 percent of registered diaspora voters participated in the parliamentary elections held on February 9.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col flex-grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 whitespace-normal break-words text-start [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"3dc1e48c-f568-4328-ab9f-1dfb85e1aa78\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-4o\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<p data-start=\"274\" data-end=\"413\">CEC spokesperson Valmir Elezi stated on Tuesday that 15,352 citizens voted at diplomatic missions, while 68,712 cast their votes by mail.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"415\" data-end=\"531\">However, he cautioned that this percentage might change after the evaluation process of the postal votes received.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"533\" data-end=\"687\">More than 2 million Kosovo citizens had the right to vote in this year\u2019s parliamentary elections, including 104,924 registered voters from the diaspora.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"689\" data-end=\"808\">This was the first electoral process where diaspora members were allowed to vote at 19 diplomatic missions worldwide.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"810\" data-end=\"925\">Elezi added that the counting of diaspora votes will begin in the coming days at the Counting and Results Center.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"927\" data-end=\"1357\" data-is-last-node=\"\">According to preliminary results, after counting more than 90 percent of the votes, the ruling party, L\u00ebvizja Vet\u00ebvendosje, has secured over 40 percent of the vote, followed by the Democratic Party of Kosovo with around 22 percent, the Democratic League of Kosovo with approximately 17 percent, and the coalition between the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo and the Social Democratic Initiative with around 7 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Kosovo has announced that 80.1 percent of registered diaspora voters participated in the parliamentary elections held on February 9. 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