Prime Minister's party confirmed winner in Kosovo

TT

Published 12.30

 

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti after voting in the election at the end of last year. Archive photo. Photo: Visar Kryeziu/AP/TT

The recount is complete. Prime Minister Albin Kurti's Social Democratic Party is confirmed as the winner of the new election in Kosovo - by a large margin.

Kurti and his party were declared the winners already at the end of December, when the election took place. Then came allegations of election fraud and a full recount was done.

It now confirms that Kurti's social democratic Vetevendosje received 51.1 percent of the vote.

The snap parliamentary election was called after Kurti failed to form a government after the election in February last year, when it received around 42 percent of the vote.

The impasse was the first of its kind since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008. As a result, no budget has been approved for 2026, raising concerns about the country's already strained economy.