Kosovo is no place of party structures

The 6 October general elections left out many candidates -- who were deputies in past legislatures -- but many new names were also voted out.

Analysts say it is a sign that Kosovo voters have changed their stance and that Kosovo is no longer the place of party structures.

The October 6th elections were surprising for the many candidates who competed. Political parties brought new names to the list that gained confidence in the next legislature, but also lost some former officials who failed to win the race. EU policy officials say this is the result of voter awareness, but also of several other factors. Political analyst Armend Muja told Kosovo Radio that voters have condemned no work and have not been influenced by party structures.

There are some key factors, the first is that what political parties haven't sniffed out is that the voting body is no longer like 10 years ago. Since 2016 until now, there has been a substantial change of voting body in favour of young people. The second is that it is no longer Kosovo of the past, the last five six years there has been progress, Kosovo is currently not controlled by party structures. And for that reason in many cases even voters have voted as independent, so there is a rising awareness of voters, and therefore they have punished long-standing MPs” he said.

Politicalologist Ramush Tahiri also says this change is the result of not assessing their work on the part of citizens, or a lack of accountability for citizens. Tahiri also speaks for other reasons:

The new grouping within the party, around the new or old leader, these have not found themselves and were penalised not by the commissions, but by membership, because it has become propaganda against them. It could also be the option that a region where an MP comes from did not have enough presentation to elect an MP, so it does not have 7-8 thousand votes, and each region chooses its own deputies. Several others have complained that they have been robbed of votes within the party.

Tahiri doesn't even reason the life span of the mandates in the Assembly for some MPs:

I don't understand why someone has to be five mandates, I understand that someone doesn't have a school done and sees himself at the party, but those who are of other professions, doctors, university professors and so on, I don't see much of the reason to stay in the Assembly. In the country to engage, you must also be of a certain amount of change and produce good solutions” he said.

Although some of the names of the 7th legislature's deputies are already known, the full list will be known after the certificate of election results.