europe's world, CIDOB (Spain)
22/12/2010
Author : CIDOB (Spain)
CIDOB Opinion # 95
"Kosovo makes progress despite the difficulties"
Jordi Vaquer i Fanés,Director of CIDOB
17 December 2010 / Opinión CIDOB 95
Author : CIDOB (Spain)
CIDOB Opinion # 95
"Kosovo makes progress despite the difficulties"
Jordi Vaquer i Fanés,Director of CIDOB
17 December 2010 / Opinión CIDOB 95
In the space of three days Kosovo, Europe’s youngest country, has once again hit the headlines. This time it has not been so much a result of the just-held first elections since independence as of the appearance of a report that accuses the winner, outgoing Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, of very serious crimes.
The ballot of Sunday 12 was not exempt of controversy, in particular in the two districts where Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) has strong support and where reports of electoral manipulation have proliferated, fuelled by numerous observations of fraud and incredibly high turnout percentages (Kosovo’s emigration figures are astronomical so there are many more people in the census than those who can actually vote, which is why the figures of a 94% turnout registered for the municipality of Skenderaj and 86% for that of Gllogovc look so implausible). Again, the Vetevendosje (Self-determination) movement which, inter alia, campaigns for unification with Albania, has made a forceful entry into parliament. As if all this were not enough, in the northern zone, under Belgrade’s control, the turnout of the Serbian population was close to zero.(...)
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