Thaci wins majority of municipalities in Pristina-run local elections
Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) won a majority in 16 of 36 municipalities in Kosovo, while the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) of President Fatmir Sejdiu was in control of eight local councils.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Some 45 percent of 1.5 million eligible voters cast their ballots in the elections on Sunday.
Serbs largely boycotted the elections, although some of them voted in central Kosovo, resulting in a Serb majority vote in three Serb-populated municipalities.
"Experience teaches us that [ethnic] Albanian authorities haven't done and will not do anything to improve the lives of the members of the Serb community in Kosovo. They only need Serbs in the elections as some sort of decor, so they could say that Serbs participated," Serbia's Kosovo minister Goran Bogdanovic said.
"There are 123,000 Serbian voters on the voting lists, but less than 8,000 voted ,which is about five to six percent, including other ethnic minorities, and that cannot be regarded as a success," the minister pointed out.
