Elections in Kosovo

PRISTINA - Kosovo's Central Election Commission (CEC) published Tuesday the final results of the January 18 snap mayoral election in the Serb-majority town of Gracanica in central Kosovo-Metohija.

PRISTINA - Hasim Taci, leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (DPK), and Isa Mustafa, leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (DLK), signed an agreement on forming a ruling coalition in Pristina on Monday.

BELGRADE - Elections for the members of national minority councils will be held at 881 polling stations in Serbia, including one in Northern Kosovska Mitrovica, said Veljko Odalovic, Deputy Secretary of the Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) on Thursday.

The logjam on Kosovo over the election of a speaker has continued after Arsim Bajrami, from the Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, got only 44 votes in favour of his election, after which the session was adjourned.

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Court gives Thaci's party right to propose assembly speaker

PRIŠTINA -- There will be no snap parliamentary elections in Kosovo, the Constitutional Court of Kosovo has decided, Tanjug is reporting.

PRISTINA – There will be no snap parliamentary elections in Kosovo, the Constitutional Court of Kosovo has decided and gave the opportunity to the biggest parliamentary group, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (DPK) of the outgoing Prime Minister Hasim Taci, to put forward a candidate for chairman of the Kosovo Assembly.

Kosovo may have to hold fresh elections – three months after the last ones - after Constitutional Court on Friday suspended the election of an opposition speaker.

The court said Isa Mustafa’s 17 July nomination was “unconstitutional because it was not the largest parliamentary group that nominated the speaker,” the court said.

The court hearing should pave the way for a ruling designed to end a political stalemate in Kosovo over the election of a speaker - and the formation of a new government.

The Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, is contesting the election of an opposition politician, Isa Mustafa, as speaker.

Kosovo’s Constitutional Court is due to hold a hearing session on Thursday when the two major political blocs will present additional arguments on which one has the right to nominate a candidate for the post of speaker of the Assembly.

Kosovo govt. to be "all-encompassing" - but without Thaci

PRIŠTINA -- Kosovo's next government will be "all-encompassing" - but without Hashim Thaci's DPK party, said Isa Mustafa, Ramush Haradinaj and Fatmir Limaj.

They head the LDK-AAK-Initiative for Kosovo post-election bloc.