The application of diaspora voters for the local elections to be held on October 17 is continuing.

The deadline for registration for voting outside Kosovo started on July 10, and will end on August 18.

The Chief Executive Officer of the CEC Secretariat, Burim Ahmetaj stated for the Telegraph, that so far they have received about 9 thousand applications.

“The number of applicants to date is about 9 thousand. “The application deadline ends on August 18,” he said.

During this 40-day period, the most eligible Kosovo citizens living outside the Republic of Kosovo had the opportunity to apply for registration to vote by mail.

Meanwhile, all applicants who meet the legal criteria to register as a voter abroad can vote during the postal voting period, which begins on September 17 and ends on October 15, 2021.

Otherwise, political entities have the right to 30 days to campaign. Meanwhile, most of the parties have already formalized the candidates for mayor.

The Office for Registration of Political Parties and Certification in the Central Election Commission from June 17 to August 16 has received applications from 94 political entities, of which 32 political parties, a coalition, 35 civic initiatives and 26 independent candidates.

The total number of candidates representing these political entities is 4 thousand 922 candidates, of which 165 candidates for mayors and 4 thousand 757 for municipal assemblies.

The deadline for submitting applications to register as a voter outside Kosovo for the local elections to be held on October 17 is August 18th.

The CEC spokesman, Valmir Elezi has announced that until noon today the CEC has received about 6 thousand applications from the diaspora, of which about 5340 applications have been approved and another 600 applications have been rejected.

“By noon on Sunday, the voting service of the Central Election Commission has received applications to register as voters outside Kosovo of about 6000 citizens, of which has approved about 5340 applications, while about 600 others have the current status of rejection. “, Said Elezi for KosovaPress.

He added that, “In these cases the voting service has communicated with these applicants and has notified them of additional documents which must be attached in order for their application to be considered complete.”

“The deadline to submit applications to register as voters outside Kosovo is August 18 and only then will we know the exact number of applicants abroad,” he said.

According to him, all these applicants who are successfully registered as voters from the diaspora, will be able to vote on another date starting from September 15, and the Central Election Commission will accept them on October 15.

“All these applicants who manage to register successfully as voters outside Kosovo will be able to vote at a later stage by mail which starts on September 15, the ballots must be received by the CEC no later than 15 October.

The way of voting by mail is the same as in the previous local and parliamentary elections, of course these are local elections and citizens so these voters who successfully register as voters outside Kosovo must fill out two ballots because they are elections for mayors and municipal assemblies “, He showed.

Political entities that want to participate in the October elections have only the next day left to apply to the Central Election Commission.

The CEC is also working over the weekend to accept applications from political entities for the local elections to be held on October 17.

CEC spokesman, Valmir Elezi tells KosovaPress that the CEC has accepted 29 political entities, where long of them are political parties, ten are citizens’ initiatives and thirteen others are independent candidates.

He also adds that the total number of these entities are 34 candidates for mayors, as well as 474 candidates for municipal assemblies.

“The Central Election Commission has received from 29 political entities, of which 6 are political parties, 10 civic initiatives and 13 independent candidates.

In general, the number of candidates who determine these political entities is 34 candidates for mayors of different municipalities, as well as 474 candidates for various municipal assemblies.

The deadline for the application of political entities, ie at the same time to submit the list with the names of candidates is August 16 and until 16:00, the CEC will wait for the applications of political entities “, he adds./KP/