diaspora interest in vote has increased, challenge remains information

Meanwhile, the main challenge, according to the organisation Germin, remains to inform citizens.

At the table, organised by Germin on the topic “Voting from abroad, diaspora in the elections for the Kosovo Assembly”, director Lirim Krasniqi said the electoral effect of the diaspora vote has increased.

The diaspora's <x0) interest in participating in the elections after each election cycle has increased, with this the electoral effect of diaspora votes...over 64 per cent of those who have voted from abroad have voted through mail boxes which the CEC has opened outside Kosovo, and this number has grown even more in December 2025, this is the most preferable form of voting, the easiest, the most efficient and the most efficient of”, Krasniqi said.

According to him, one of the main challenges remains to inform citizens abroad of the form of voting and the opening of polling stations and mailboxes outside Kosovo.

Krasniqi recommended that the location of polling stations be clarified outside Kosovo.

At this table of discussion, guests from the organisation were also representatives of political subjects.

Apart from the Vetevendosje Movement representative, no other political party participated.

LVV representative Lisa Gashi recalled how in 2010 the diaspora was 5 thousand votes, while today this number has grown dramatically.

As for the information part, Gashi said there is still work to be informed of the actual diaspora.

So far nearly 110 thousand diaspora voting requirements have been approved in the June 7th 2026 elections. Meanwhile, in December 28, 2025, 77 thousand were registered. /Periscope