Kosovo's Self-Determination Movement candidate for prime minister, Albin Kurti, said tonight that the election process for the Kosovo parliament was free, democratic and fair, describing the result as confirmation of his victory.
"We are the first, this is a confirmation of our good, democratic and progressive governance. Our winning coalition will form a new government," he said.
Kurti stressed that he would continue with the work he had started, adding that citizens had shown that they were against the oligarchs.
Due to technical problems, the website of the Central Election Commission (CEC) has been blocked, so the preliminary results of today's parliamentary elections in Kosovo are still unknown.
The first exit polls published by the Pristina-based television station Klan Kosova, conducted by the well-known company "Ipos", show that the Self-Determination Party would receive the most votes in the parliamentary elections in Kosovo - 38,2 percent or 43 parliamentary seats.
According to these exit polls, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (DPK) follows with 22,4 percent or 25 parliamentary seats and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) with 20,1 percent or 23 parliamentary seats.
Among Albanian parties, the coalition of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo and the Social Democratic Initiative also passed the election threshold with 7,6 percent, or nine parliamentary seats.
The margin of error is plus or minus three percent, it says.
Polls in Kosovo closed at 19 p.m.
Representatives of Serbian and other minority communities will also receive ten seats each, a total of 20 out of 120 members of the Kosovo parliament.
According to Fisnik Halimi, who presented the results, the survey was conducted by more than 100 pollsters, and it was organized in more than half, at 400 voting centers.
He added that more than 8.000 people answered the questions of those who completed the survey.
Similar results were given by polls conducted by Gazeta Ekspres, TV7 and RTV Dukagjini.
Radio Free Europe (RFE) reported that as the Central Election Commission continues to process data, voter turnout is also rising slightly.
Turnout was previously reported to be below 40 percent, but after processing 90,68 percent of the votes, it exceeded 40 percent.
According to the voter register, the number of Kosovo citizens with the right to vote in Kosovo itself is 1.970.944 voters.
28 political entities participated in the elections, of which 20 political parties, five coalitions, two civic initiatives and one independent candidate.
For the first time, due to the implementation of the election law from 2008, votes are not being counted in Kosovo Polje, but in each municipality separately.
Votes cast for political entities are counted on the spot immediately after the polls close, at the polling center or location itself.
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