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The new chairman of the Islamic Community of Kosovo (BIK) will be elected on Saturday. The process of selecting the new mufti will begin at 9:00.

Official candidates for this position have not been made public. But Radio Free Europe finds that candidates are the current mufti, Naim Ternava, and his deputy, Reshat Mexhit.

Contacted by Radio Free Europe, Reshat Mexhiti, who is currently imam at the Bayrakli mosque in Prizren, said briefly he cannot speak on this issue.

“Tomorrow are elections and in respect of calm and silence we do not communicate. You could ask those of the election commission”, Imam Mexhidi said.

In the Islamic Community of Kosovo, two candidates for Kosovo mufti are already known, but they did not mention names, saying the election process would be damaged.

For both of these candidates, the electoral body -- which consists of 28 Assembly delegates, the 28 heads of the Kosovo Islamic Community Councils in 28 municipalities -- will vote, as well as a representative from Medresey and one from the Faculty of Islamic Sciences.

Naim Ternava has been Kosovo's mufti for 13 years and has completed the third term at the helm of the highest institution of Islamic confidence in Kosovo.

The re-election for the position has even raised several dilemmas and connoisseurs of Islam in Kosovo have said Ternava is violating the BIK Constitution.