Hakki Rugova: On December 17th they won't be able to vote dead

On December 17th, citizens of the Istog municipality will turn to four ballot boxes for the time being. This is after the Electoral Panel for Anxiety and Parashtre (PZAP) has made the decision that this municipality will go to revote after the November 19th runoff, where the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo's Ghani Dresey came out victorious after counting the vote by mail. And exactly the LDK's complaints about votes coming by mail that were crucial after they turned the score down caused Istog to go on revote.

LDK candidate for Istog chairman Hakki Rugova expects the revote process in this municipality to go smoothly. In a proposal for the Oobserver Journal, Rugova says the CEC has already taken all necessary measures to manage the process. He says they are convinced of the victory, re-evaluating once again the fact that the entire voting process by mail for this municipality was manipulated.

He says he regrets the citizens of Istog who once again must turn to ballot boxes to elect the mayor.

I think that it's ever happened in history that voting is repeated so many times, it's unfair to the citizens of Istog”, Rugova has indicated.

According to him, this process will go smoothly, and it expects there to be no manipulation.

“The CEC has taken steps. No one will be denied the right to vote the people who have applied again, but it will be allowed to vote on those who have successfully smuggled them” votes, he said.

Rugova says it has been against Istog to go fully into revote, however, says they are working and are convinced of victory.

In a response to Gazeta Oobserver, Rugova stresses that the process of voting in post for Istog has been fully manipulated and says that there are people from the central level involved in the job.

I don't believe they'll vote on the dead, those things will be impossible. That process has been entirely manipulated. That subject is already in the prosecution, and let the prosecution deal with all those people and those designated circuits, both at the local level and at the central level. There's people in the middle level and let's see, let's act. It remains in the justice bodies to do their job” has ended Hakki Rugova.

The newspaper Observer has also tried to contact the AAK's Gani Dresey, but contact with him has been impossible.

In the first round of elections to be held on 22 October, Hakki Rugova won 45.36% of the vote, while Gani Dresaj was listed as the second most voted candidate by 35.63%. This result led them to the November 19th runoff, where Rugova won 51.88% of the vote, while Dresaj 48.12%, but the result was overturned during the vote count by mail and conditional, providing the AAK candidate with the victory, Gani Drashaj.

Taking into account complaints sent by the LDK concerning votes by mail which were crucial in the result, PZAP has decided that Istog will go to revote on December 17th. Rugova's counterCandids in this election are Gani Dresey from the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo.