CEC saw date for announcing final election outcome

The vote count has already ended, but the CEC still does not have any deadlines for announcing the final election outcome.

The Central Election Commission (KQZ) still does not foresee a specific date when the final result of parliamentary elections held on 6 October can be announced. The vote count is already over.

Valmir Elezi, the CEC spokesman, in a conversation for Radio Free Europe, shows that the count of all regular votes has ended, those in the mail, the conditional vote, by the diaspora, the votes of persons with special needs, as well as the recount of certain locations where irregularities were observed. However, it does not even give a date when the final result will be announced.

There is no legal deadline when the Central Election Commission should announce the final outcome of an election process. But the law envisions that all procedures that must be completed until the announcement of the final results”.

“In this direction, the CEC will announce the final results of an election process after counting votes on bail, votes with special needs and votes from abroad. Also, after all the eventual recounts made at the recommendation of the Counting and Results Centre are completed. It is known that the CEC has completed the count of these” votes, Elez said.

The conclusion of the process of extraordinary elections, meaning the proclamation of its final outcome and certificate, according to Elez, already depends on the election panel's decision on Ances and Parashtes. It is a complaint by the Vetevendosje Movement for the count of about 5,000 votes coming from the diaspora to Kosovo outside the legal deadline.

This complaint was originally submitted to the Index for Anxiety and Parashtre (PZAP), but was returned as groundless request. Vetevendosje had later filed the same request to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favour of Vetevendosje's complaint, and through a conviction returned the subject to PZAP.

PZAP, on the other hand, has rejected the subject as unfounded. In a media communique, PZAP says the <x0-papa could file a complaint with the Supreme Court of Kosovo within the 24-hour legal deadline, from the moment of the decision's accession. While the Supreme Court of Kosovo must decide on the complaint within the 72-hour deadline of”.

As for the final result, even after the 530 deployment process, then counting votes from the diaspora, those from Serbia and the vote on bail, there is no difference with the preliminary result presented on 7 October. The Vetevendosje movement remains the subject that has won the elections, followed by the Democratic League of Kosovo, the Democratic Party of Kosovo and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo coalition ʹ the Social Democrat Party. While it still remains to prove whether the Social Democrat Initiative coalition, the New Kosovo Alliance and the Justice Party have passed the 5 per cent election threshold.

On the other hand, representatives of civil society who have been involved in monitoring the whole process have stated that having the entire process and the dynamics of counting and recounting of votes on base of the train will take time.

Eugen Cakoli from the Kosovo Democratic Institute told Free Europe Radio, that the recount of certain locations, the delay in the vote from the diaspora, as well as votes from Serbia have partly negatively affected the overall integrity of the election process.

“To be realistic, they have been given more a political nature and have been exaggerated as problems, although in fact, the process has been in Souze of those that have happened even in past election cycles. As far as the vote is delayed by diaspora as well as those from Serbia, Kosovo has faced these two phenomena, even during past election cycles”, Cakoli said.

Based on reports by local and international observers, the election process passed smoothly and was in line with democratic standards.