Chocolate for the race in Gjilan: Arber Ishmael needs 50% of diaspora votes to secure runoff

This is after the processing and counting of votes from the diaspora, which according to him, is about 3,000 registered voters from abroad.

According to him, current chairman of Gjilan, Alban Hysen, only needs 92 votes to complete the race right now.

With votes that have been processed so far, Gjilan turns out to be on the verge of passing the run-off. Alban Hyseni needs only 92 votes to pass without a runoff. There are 2,000 voters abroad, registered to vote in Gjilan. It remains to be seen their number, but usually the percentage amounts to 70-80%. If we only follow election trains so far, the likelihood is that Gjilan was the other municipality that ended up without a run-off in favour of Alban Hyseni, but also depending on conditional votes, which, although not very large, could increase the number of votes that are abroad”, he said, Klankos.tv.

Moreover, he said votes from the diaspora usually go in favour of the LVV, as has happened in past elections, when nearly 70% of them had come to Hysen.

“Alban Hyseni, even in the 2021 elections, when the counter-Canads had Lutfi Haziri, who has been evidently more consolidated as a public figure and the percentage has been better than Arben Ismajli, has managed to have only a symbolic number of votes abroad, while LVV has had nearly 70% of the diaspora vote”, Cakoli said.

However, he says that for the race to go to the run-off, LDK candidate Arber Ismajli needs over 50% of diaspora votes.

As for Yunik, Cakoli said that there is the most interesting race where the $14 of the municipality's voters are from abroad.

So 4 thousand voters are in June, 1300 are registered abroad. The gap between the two candidates is several hundred votes and the odds are real for this municipality to close without a run-off. Politically, each candidate, Agron Kuci, can win but also Ruzhdi Shehu to finish without a run-off. But if we follow the trains of the past, the odds are that most of the votes are for Shehu, and that's enough to provide 55% of the votes abroad”, Cakolli said.

Thus, the LDK can according to him win the municipality without a run-off.