Over a thousand prisoners to vote in February 14th elections

The Kosovo corrective service (SHKK) has handed over to the Central Election Commission (KQZ) the list of 1,000 and 351 inmates eligible for Sunday's election.

The senior public communication official at the Kosovo Correcting Service (SHKK), Florent Gashi for Express, has detailed the way these prisoners will vote.

“Actually in the correctional institutions, 1351 prisoners have voting rights. The Kosovo corrective service(SHKK) has sent the CEC list with this number”, Gashi has told Express.

According to him, the voting process will take place within prisons at the same time as elections taking place abroad.

The “Vosion will take place on the same day as February 14th on Sunday, the process will be held at the same time as elections to be held outside”, it has declared further.

E Gashi's SKK has created all conditions so that prisoners can vote in Sunday's elections.

In the meantime, according to the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo, Article 45, every citizen of the Republic of Kosovo who has reached the age of eighteen, even on election day, enjoys the right to choose and choose, except when that right is limited to judicial decision.

While according to the CEC, the country's final voter list for early elections for the Kosovo Parliament, which will be held on February 14th, contains 1 million and 794 thousand and 862 voter names.

In this election are 143 thousand and 6 voters less than in the October 6th 2019 Parliamentary Elections, after 122 thousand and 421 voters who own only ID documents issued by UNMIK, as well as the removal of 11 thousand and 86 who have been confirmed that they have left retirement from pension schemes due to death.

According to the CEC, another 102 thousand and 100 applications from voters abroad have been approved