The candidate of the New Kosovo Alliance for mayor of Prishtina, Gëzim Mehmeti says that he has received strong support in Barilevo, where he has promised to build new bridges, sports fields, reorganize the cemetery and establish lines of new public transport based on residents’ requests.

Mehmeti wrote on the social network Facebook that Barileva is known for its traditions, educated people and hard workers in many fields, especially in the agricultural sector, for which she promised to allocate 6 million euros annual budget.

Mehmeti also said that media polls are commissioned.

“Every day more and more we see that the polls in our media are commissioned, a well-known practice as happened in 2017 where AKR in Pristina denied everything as it will do even more strongly this time. “The work we have done for almost 4 years, no one has done in the past 17 years”, said Mehmeti.

The mayor of Gjilan, Lutfi Haziri, says local elections should not be postponed. In the show DPT on Fidani on T7, Haziri has shown why Prime Minister Albin Kurti asked for the postponement of the October 17 elections.

“My tendency to postpone the elections was hidden inside Covid’s black numbers, but it was entirely politically motivated,” says Haziri.

“To postpone the elections and buy time and cause a completely different kind of political mobilization which is related to the needs of the elections,” he added.

Haziri mentioned the dialogue with Seria and as he said the return of attention to the Balkans.

“This week and next week the attention is returned to the Balkans and you know that from tomorrow Chancellor Merkel, the special delegate for Kosovo will be here”, explains Haziri.

Aleksandar Vucic vows to clean up the country’s shaky finances when a pollster says his party won almost half of the votes cast.

Serbia’s ruling Progressive Party has declared victory in the parliamentary elections and promises profound economic reforms.

The victory, which rivals the results of the late Slobodan Milosevic during the war years of the 1990s, will see Progressive Party (SNS) leader Aleksandar Vucic become Prime Minister when Serbia starts talks about joining the EU.

Pollster Cesid said the progressives won 48.8 percent of the votes cast on Sunday, which would mean around 157 seats in parliament with 250 seats under the Serbian electoral system. The party itself said it had won 49.3 percent.

“Nobody had such a day,” Vucic said to cheering supporters in Belgrade, according to a report by Reuters news agency. “My goal is not to get rich, my goal is that the people of Serbia live better,” he said.

The SNS forced the early election after only 18 months of coalition with the Socialist Party of outgoing Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and said it needed a stronger mandate to clean up Serbia’s shaky finances.

According to Cesid, the socialists took second place with 14 percent and secured around 50 seats.

The remaining seats went to the pro-Western Democratic Party and the New Democratic Party of former President Boris Tadic, which split before the vote.

“Heavy reforms”

It was one of the most convincing victories of a party since the introduction of the multiparty system in Serbia in the 1990s.

In his victory speech, Vucic promised to fight vigorously against corruption and crime and to revive the economy in the troubled Balkan nation of around 7 million people.

“We are facing tough reforms,” ​​said Vucic. “But I am sure that the Serbs will soon be living better than they are now.”

The turnout was 52 percent, slightly lower than in the 2012 general election when the Progressives, former allies of Milosevic, came back to power, the Associated Press reported.

The vote came when Serbia, a longtime international pariah who had instigated wars in the Balkans in the 1990s, officially sought to join the EU amid simmering social dissatisfaction with falling living standards.

Serbia started accession talks with the EU this year after signing an agreement to normalize relations with Kosovo, a former province that was divided in 2008 but whose independence Serbia does not recognize.

Vucic says he needs a strong mandate to carry out painful reforms necessary to help Serbia’s economy, which has been ravaged by mismanagement, wars and international sanctions.

The opposition has accused him of wanting to introduce so-called Russian leadership in Serbia by taking over dominant powers in the state that is deeply divided between pro-Russian and pro-western attitudes.

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Exit polls: Rami 46.9 percent

According to the first estimates, the Socialist Party of Edi Rama received 46.9 percent, and the Democratic Party of Ljuljzim Basha 43.5 percent of the votes.

The Socialist Movement for Integration of Ilir Meta won 6.9 percent of the votes, according to the first exit polls, Reuters reports.

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Conflict at the polling station at the school

The commissioners of the two political parties clashed this morning at the polling station in the school in the village of Lekbibaj, reports the Panorama portal.

Police allege that three brothers threatened with a gun, as well as that they hit citizen A. with hard objects. N., a representative of another political entity.

It is also stated that the three of them damaged and destroyed the property of this school, as well as that they did not obey the order of the police officer.

Scenes from the election campaign were not repeated when several were wounded in Kavaja, and in Elbasan, one person was killed and five wounded, supporters and sympathizers of the two strongest and mutually opposed parties in Albania – the Socialist and Democratic Parties.

The leaders of those parties, Edi Rama and Ljuljzim Basha, unconvincingly denied that members of their parties were killed and wounded, wanting, above all, to calm the passions among the voters.

They seem to have succeeded in that. In a calm atmosphere, with minor incidents, such as painting, the seizure of already rounded ballots and conflicts between members of polling stations, about 3.6 million voters were free to go to the polls.

The messages of the leaders of the two largest political blocs are that democracy should win. Edi Rama has been prime minister for the last two terms, and Ljuljzim Bashe is just as much waiting to win.

“Today is the day not to spread a negative impression towards anyone who expresses a different opinion with their voice. We are one big family in the same homeland and no one should forget that democracy is a sport in which everyone should go out on the field and shoot with their voice. And in the end, the best will win, “Edi Rama said.

“Today is a historic day, a day when we all have strength in our hands. As soon as we have strength in our hands, for our children for our family, for the homeland and for us. This is your day and the day of your democracy. Today is the day of Albania, God bless Albania, “Ljuljzim Basha pointed out.

For the first time, one Albanian party from Kosovo is participating in the elections in Albania – the Self-Determination movement. The leader of the movement and the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, voted as a citizen of Albania.

“I congratulate and wish as many better days as possible for Albania and everyone as well as for me who has a passport of the Republic of Albania,” said Kurti.

Kurti’s interference in the political life of Albania is a trial. There are three candidates for MPs. This interference in the internal affairs of Kosovo Albanians is not welcome in Albania.

“I can’t understand what this is about. On the one hand, everyone in Kosovo is complaining about the interference of Serbia or its President Aleksandar Vučić, but on the other hand we see that the Kosovo Prime Minister is even voting in Albania. It is not acceptable. At least not for me.” ,, EP rapporteur for Kosovo Viola von Cramon commented on Twitter.

That will be another challenge for the one who wins in Albania today. In addition to the fight against the spread of the pandemic, unemployment, and economic recovery, he will also have to tame Kurti’s political ambitions. In this or the next election, it doesn’t matter. Kurti wants more from Kosovo.

3.6 million citizens had the right to vote, although Albania has a population of 2.8 million. Albanians living in other countries could also vote.

With 20 million euros spent, these elections are by far the most expensive elections in the history of multi-party politics in Albania.