The elections in Kosovo, as seen by the world media

Kosovo's ruling party "Vetëvendosje" is on track to win the country's parliamentary elections, but will need to negotiate a coalition with other parties to form a government, exit polls and results showed.

This is how the prestigious British media outlet, The Guardian, begins its article, according to which, "with 73% of votes counted, Prime Minister Albin Kurti's left-wing Vetevendosje Movement, or Vetevendosje, had won 41.99%."

“The election result would be a drop from the more than 50% he won in 2021. But it puts Kurti in position to lead the next government in a country whose politics are dominated by relations with neighboring Serbia and Serbs within its borders,” The Guardian writes, according to Telegraph.

As this media outlet points out, during the election campaign, Kurti apparently ruled out the possibility of forming a coalition, saying that he would not participate in the government unless he won an outright majority.

"But, late Sunday after declaring victory, Kurti said he would form the new government without hinting at who the potential coalition partner might be."

“We are the first party, the winning party that will form the next government,” Kurti told reporters. “We will continue to finish the work we have started.”

Reuters also wrote a special article about the elections in Kosovo.

Kosovo's ruling Vetevendosje party came first in Sunday's parliamentary election but fell short of the outright majority needed to govern without coalition partners, preliminary results showed on Monday.

While Euronews emphasizes that "preliminary results from Kosovo's legislative elections show that the party of current Prime Minister Albin Kurti is in the lead, but does not have the majority necessary to govern alone."

The BBC also noted that "Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has declared his party's victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections, although partial results suggest he does not have a majority."

But this media outlet has mentioned the fact that the delay in announcing the official results was due to the failure of the Central Election Commission's counting system.

President Vjosa Osmani has called on the commission to "protect the integrity of the electoral process, ensuring that every vote is counted fairly."

Meanwhile, the AP has shown that with 73% of votes counted, Vetëvendosje won 41.99% – which does not give it the majority needed to govern alone – leaving open the possibility that the other three contenders could join the ranks if he fails to form a government cabinet.

This media outlet has indicated that the other challengers are "the Democratic Party of Kosovo, or PDK, whose top leaders are being held at an international criminal court in The Hague on charges of war crimes, which won 22.68% of the vote."

"Next with 17.9% support is the Democratic League of Kosovo, or LDK, the oldest party in the country, which lost a large part of its support after the death in 2006 of its leader, Ibrahim Rugova. The third contender is the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo of former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj with 7.56%." /Telegrafi/