Today, Kosovo holds parliamentary elections where 1,280 candidates from 28 electoral lists are vying for 120 seats in the Kosovo Assembly.

Among the 28 lists, 14 represent minority groups that are neither Albanian nor Serbian; there are also eight Albanian lists and six Serbian lists.

The voting is for 120 seats in the Kosovo Assembly, including ten reserved for the Serbian minority and ten for other minorities in Kosovo.

This is the first set of regular elections since Kosovo declared independence in 2008.

In the last regular elections held in 2007, some voters who are eligible to vote today were not even born.

Since then, Kosovo has conducted five extraordinary parliamentary elections due to declining support for the ruling majority.

Today, 2,075,868 citizens are eligible to vote, with access to 941 polling centers and 2,533 polling stations, according to the Central Election Commission of Kosovo (CEC).

Of those, 1,970,944 reside in Kosovo, while 104,924 are registered to vote from abroad.

Polling stations opened at midnight and will close 12 hours later. Notably, this year the election silence has been reduced to the duration of polling hours rather than starting the day before.

The Kosovo Ministry of Infrastructure stated that buses from central Serbia traveling for voting will not be allowed entry unless they are part of regular bus routes or prior permission has been granted by the relevant authorities.

Petar Petković, Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija, dismissed these assertions, assuring that the international community guarantees no issues for displaced Serbs participating in tomorrow’s elections.

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