The EU monitoring mission for elections in Kosovo: We don't care about the outcome, but the process

The EU office in Kosovo has expressed itself ready through the monitoring team to monitor the October 6th national elections in Kosovo and have demanded that the entire election process go smoothly.

Through a media conference, observer team officials detailed their mission and are told that through their presence in the entire election process, possible irregularities are expected.

EU Election Monitoring Mission in Kosovo chief Violet Von Cremon Taubadel said they are paying enormous importance to these elections to give impartial estimates overall.

Our fully composed “mission will observe the process, this reflects the EU's pledge in Kosovo. All our observers respect the code of conduct that implies that we are impartial and do not intervene in elections, we are not interested in the outcome. We hope that our presence will have an impact on removing the negative aspects during the elections, we are here to make sure that the process is conducted transparently. Our mission consists of a team of nine experts and 18 observers, we expect another delegation to come and until the end I believe we will be about 100 observers. We will also monitor the media during the campaign. On election day we will observe the whole process, counting, pretrets” complaints, she said.

It criticised the failure to implement some of the recommendations the EU has addressed since 2017.

The EU observer mission's chief stressed the need that all voters should generally exercise their democratic right to vote.

She gave no comment on the threats Nenad Rassic addressed.