With about 25 percent of the votes counted, the centre-right opposition parties are leading the municipal vote in Kosovo as runoffs will still be necessary to determine half of the winners
A Kosovo Albanian man casts his ballot at a polling station in Pristina on October 17, 2021 during the municipal elections in Kosovo. have been leading in Sunday's municipal election but runoffs will still be needed to decide half of the winners, according to early results.
About 1.9 million voters in the small Balkan nation were electing mayors for 38 municipalities and about 1,000 town hall lawmakers. Election officials said preliminary turnout was 42.5 percent, slightly less than four years ago. With about 25 percent of the vote counted, preliminary results showed that 19 communes will need a runoff in a month to elect their mayors, election officials said.
The main contest was for Pristina City Hall, for which the governing center left Self-Determination Party, or Vetevendosje!, had nominated its former health minister, Arben Vitia. The Vetevendosje! is leading the contest, but since it has not crossed the 50 percent result a runoff is expected in the capital of Kosovo.Kosovo, local elections :
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