Where are Albin Kurt's votes?

Albin Kurti came out most voted by the October 6th elections of 2019. 183 thousand 868 citizens had voted it to leave the country's government in their hands. Given expectations for the LVV) resolution, Kurti was also expected to come up with the most voted candidate.

Kurti had vowed to compete in the elections, even though he had banned the Central Election Commission, following the Constitutional Court ruling, which said that all people convicted in the last three years cannot compete in elections.

VVA members had called for citizens to vote on Kurti.

Konjufca has declared that citizens will vote number one and that the ballots Kurti is voting on cannot bring no court to naught.

The constitutional court is no god in this country. It submits to the will of popular sovereignty, and parliament is built on it. Citizens vote the number 1 without any problem, no court can declare that balloting” invalid, Konjufca had declared.

The other VVA member, Albulen Hadziu, had declared that the institutions feared Kurti's legitimacy and could not run.

Haxhiu even said Kurti would get a much larger and historic number of votes.

Kurti will be legitimised this time with a huge and historic number of votes

“All votes for number 1 on the LV list are counted. Vote for number 1 on our list is not an invalid vote for either subject or other candidates. Vote for number 1 is vote for presence that cannot become absent. Every vote for number one is the vote for Albin Kurti. It's the vote against injustice made by the seized institutions. Some authorities, through their control over the CEC and other institutions, took this action only to escape the known possibility that Kurti would be legitimised this time with a very large and historic number of votes”, Had Haxhi said.

But, ten days after February 14th, the Vetevendosje Movement, which emerged as the winner of these elections, has not yet published statistics on the party leader's votes.

The Express newspaper has checked results forms in Pristina, where it noted that at two polling stations, although there was no room for number one, commissioners have even written Albin Kurti's votes.

At a poll in Pristina, Kurti has received 146 votes, until more votes have taken the number two on his party's list, Vjosa Osmani.

Even in another vote, in which commissioners have counted and registered Kurti's votes, he has fewer votes than Osman.

And until it is unknown how many votes Albin Kurti has secured in the February 14th elections and the commissioners have counted his votes, Vjosa Osmani, who was at her initiative part of the VVNA list, has come out most voted in Kurti's party.

According to unofficial media reports, it has received over 250 thousand votes overall. If that stays, then Osman becomes the most voted politician in Kosovo, with the electoral system with open lists.

Meanwhile, one of VVA officials who had called for Kurti to vote was also Sami Kurteshi, who is a member of this party at the Central Election Commission.

He had declared that citizens can vote Albin Kurti, and that votes for it will be counted by commissioners.

Express has contacted Kurtesh to ask whether the commissioners have counted the votes of the leader of the Vetevendosje Movement.

Kurteshi has declared that the CEC has changed the forms. He even says that by doing so, the votes of the candidates have been mixed and that there could be mistakes during their vote-taking.

They have mixed, for example, the votes of the first and second

The point is, you've seen how this whole election flow went down, the CEC actually touched a form, part of that list of candidates, changing numbers in vain. This is possible that, as a result, the first votes with the second or the sixth votes are mixed with the seventh, the wrong bearing. However, this does not affect votes for the subject, because candidates that have not been certified have been the choice of the political subject or whether they are replaced. The Vetevendosje movement has decided not to replace them, they have been able to remain the numbers as they are and register on the original forms, this has not been done”, Kurteshi has declared.

Asked if with “mixed first votes with second” It alludes that Albin Kurti's votes have gone to number two on the VV's list, so Vjosa Osmani, Kurteshi has claimed that he has not been taken to count Kurti's votes or others.

I'm not saying anything, I'm not saying anything, I just explained the phenomenon. The phenomenon is this, there are cases, we have no case of wrong voting, if there is even one case we cannot say there is no. I didn't deal with this vote count issue for Mr. Kurt and none of the candidates, because I don't do the voting department at all. I personally, since I haven't done it myself in detail with forms, I don't dare to say, but I know it has such a wrong, wrong bearing, but I can't say because I'm dealing with it at all, I'm on all other issues, but it means such wrong bearings. No votes have been counted yet so no exact figure can be said...”, Kurteshi has declared.

He has also shown how one candidate's votes with another could be confused.

There are two cases, because people have jobs, and by that routine they write them hard, and when a moment comes, We have a number six, and what did he do? Where are they? You got these votes? We've carried the sixth to the seventh, seventh to the eighth, eight to nine., even seen it once and started to improve, or, for example,We've got one votes, we've got two, three, four.Oh... These are, but I can't say exactly about any number, and I don't think anyone can say, nor in the QNR, nor can anybody say exactly, because only when the decision forms are out can they see exactly what the situation is.

We remember that the Vetevendosje Movement, along with the Vjosa Osman list, has emerged as the winner of the February 14th election with more than 47 per cent of the regular vote. No conditional votes and votes by mail are included in this result. /