Kosovo heads for political shake-up in elections on Sunday

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An anti-establishment party was expected to take the lead in parliamentary elections in Kosovo on Sunday, complicating Western efforts to broker an end to a territorial dispute with Serbia that has hobbled its 13 years of independence.

The Vetevendosje party’s growing popularity has shifted the political balance in the small Balkan state, which declared independence from Serbia nine years after NATO bombing ended a crackdown on separatists by then-Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic.

Serbia, backed by Russia, does not recognise Kosovo’s independence, citing the need to protect the rights of its Serb minority. Numerous EU and U.S. negotiators have failed to secure a compromise to allow it to join international organisations such as the United Nations and NATO. A Facebook campaign has won it support among young people, including the many who have moved abroad to try to find work. One in three people are unemployed in what is the poorest country in the Western Balkans.“It would be good to get rid of the thieves,” he told Reuters. “We hope the Vetevendosje people will do something, that’s why we came from abroad to vote.”

“Those ruling Kosovo for the past 20 years will be thrown out of political life in Kosovo and we will see new politicians,” said Nexhmedin Spahiu, a 55-year-old professor from the northern town of Mitrovica, home to many ethnic Serbs.

 

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A totally boring and unprofessional article about the elections in Kosova as it was written by a primary-school scholar, coming from Scandinavia with limited knowledge of the region, yet with damaging, untrue and idiotic cliches as a „poor and small“ country in the Balkans.

You misspelled Serbia

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