Early results show Thaci party has lead
The Pristina-based Gani Bobi Institute said late on Sunday that Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo had picked up 31 percent of the vote, followed by Isa Mustafa's Democratic Alliance of Kosovo with 25 percent, and Albin Kurti's Self-Determination movement with 16 percent of total votes.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, December 13, 2010
Ramush Haradinaj's Alliance for the Future of Kosovo took 12.5 percent of the vote, while Bexhet Pacoli's Alliance for a New Kosovo won 6.5 percent of the vote.
The Institute said that it did not have figures for Serb enclaves in the province.
North of the Ibar River Serbs ignored the ballot, while in the enclaves in the south, Slobodan Petrović and his SLS party, which took part in the previous government in Priština, declared victory.
Ahead of the election, the government in Belgrade refused to invite Serbs to participate, saying that "conditions were not present".
Silence of CIK
And while Thaci's party celebrated victory in Priština last night, which almost led to armed clashes with their rivals, the elections commission (CIK) has been silent.
The commission only said that parties were free to lodge complaints, but refrained from announcing preliminary results, or possible irregularities.
Ismet Krueziu of the Democracy in Action said that there were "manipulations and irregularities that hurt the election process", adding that irregularities in the polling stations in Srbica and Glogovac could jeopardize that process.
