PRISTINA: Opposition parties won the night in Kosovo’s election Sunday, taking the lead over former guerrillas who have dominated politics for the past decade.
“We did not win. We accept the verdict of the people and the PDK moves to the opposition,” conceded Kadri Veseli, whose party is tied to President Hashim Thaci and has been in power since 2007. Kurti, who will be tasked with forming the government if his party’s lead is cemented, first gained fame as a student activist protesting Serbian repression in the 1990s before the war broke out.
Sunday’s snap poll was called after ex-prime minister Ramush Haradinaj, a former guerrilla commander, resigned in July to face questioning by a special court in The Hague investigating war crimes from the 1998-99 separatist conflict with Serbia. The neighbours have yet to normalise ties two decades after they clashed in war, a lingering source of instability in Europe.
Yet their EU-led dialogue has been at a standstill for more than a year, with frequent diplomatic provocations souring efforts to build goodwill.If the dialogue with Belgrade does resume, one of the most sensitive issues will be settling what powers to grant Serb-majority administrations in Kosovo.
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