Mobile for Elections and Vote Protection

In these elections, voters' rights have more than 1 million and 900 Kosovars, who will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite MPs or parties.

For the 6 October elections, the Central Election Commission has certified 25 subjects -- from them 20 political parties, four coalitions and an independent candidate.

In the CEC, they say they have made all preparations in terms of organising and conducting the election process.

According to this institution, voting rights in the 6 October elections exactly have 1 million and 937 thousand and 869 voters.

Central Election Commission spokesman Valmir Elezi told Radio Free Europe that in these elections there are more than 100,000 new voters.

So there are 111,000 and 733 more voters compared to the 2017 local elections. Of these 111,000 and 733 voters, there are 87 thousand and 180 new voters who, after the local elections, have reached the age of 18 which will vote for the first time in these elections, as well as 24 thousand and 553 voters who have not been part of the voter list of these elections, but who can be considered as registered voters for the first time in the central civil registry between two sets of elections, or who have been equipped with documents from the Republic of Kosovo”, Elez said.

According to the CEC, 895 polling stations will open in these elections with a total of 2 thousand and 547 polling stations opening at 7 am and closing at 19.

The election process will be monitored by a group of more than 40 civil society organisations that have joined the “Democracy in Action”.

The coalition of civil society organisations, Democracy in Action, will have its observers at all polling stations in Kosovo.

According to Blerta Aliu from Democracy to Action, the election day will be committed to about 3 thousand volunteers who will report any irregularities that could be presented during the voting process.

The co-ordination of NGOs for monitoring elections Democracy in Action has already been mobilised for election day. We'll observe the 6 October elections, we'll be at each poll, some three thousand volunteers are engaged in this process. We're gonna cover all the locations, we're gonna have the call center. We'll be present through real-time conferences to clarify all the results and data that comes from the ground. For any irregularities we will be there to report. The coalition of NGOs, Democracy in Action, consists of 40 partner organisations and is extended to the entire territory of Kosovo”, Aliu said.

The 6 October election process will also be monitored by a wide mission of the European Union. About 30 observers and analysts from this mission have been deployed in Kosovo since the beginning of September.

Same as the past times in these elections, there will be about 100 observers in total, from EU member states who will monitor the voting process and counting on 6 October.

This is the fifth election monitoring mission in Kosovo by the European Union since 2013.

Meanwhile, Kosovo police will take care of the process as well as the transport of electoral material.

To ensure a fair election process, there is an important role in the State Prosecutorship, the institution that has appointed 100 presiding prosecutors to the country's level for the day of elections.

National State Prosecutor for Elections Co-ordinator Laura Pula has said prosecutors will see to it that all necessary measures required by law against those who could violate the law by damaging the election process are taken.

“Based in the Penal Code of the Republic of Kosovo, where 11 criminal acts are involved, depending on the elements we will encounter, and the crimes taken by certain persons will react in time, immediately with the ban of persons who will conflict with the” law, Pula has said.

The 6 October elections were announced after 19 July this year, then Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj resigned from his position.

Haradinaj argued the resignation with the fact that he had accepted the invitation to be interviewed in the quality of war crimes suspect by Kosovo's Special Court with Seli at The Hague.