“If everyone respects the law, the preliminary results of the parliamentary elections will be released within the deadline set by the Electoral Code, no later than Tuesday afternoon,” Celibashi told a press conference after the polls closed in Albania on Sunday evening, adding “everyone should show patience and wait for the vote counting process.”

The head of the central election body underlined that the vote counting process is equally important and called on ballot counting teams and commissioners from all parties to maintain calm and show restraint.

Celibashi reassured that the Central Election Commission has developed the entire infrastructure to ensure that the process is monitored by the representatives from the political parties, the candidates, who are entitled to attend the ballot counting process, as well as other observers and the media.

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The central election body approved certification of the February 9 election results with nine votes in favor and two against.

Two representatives of Vetëvendosje in CEC rejected certification of the election results now, arguing that their party has demanded cancellation of the postal votes, claiming the votes were manipulated and demanding a re-vote by mail. However, the country’s Supreme Court has rejected the complaint.

The vote confirmed victory for the ruling party, Vetëvendosje (LVV), led by Prime Minister Albin Kurti, which secured 42.3% of ballots cast. However, with 48 of 120 seats in parliament, the party will need coalition partners to form a new government.

The Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) followed with 20.95%, and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) secured 18.27%. The AAK-Nisma coalition secured 7.06 percent.

The Serb List – the biggest party of Kosovo Serbs – has secured 4.26% of the votes.

Once the new parliament is seated, President Osmani is expected to formally nominate a prime minister from LVV, who must secure a majority of at least 61 votes to form a government.

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With 88% of polling stations already counted, Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s LVV leads with 41.29%, followed by the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) at 21.83%, and the Democratic League of Kosov (LDK) at 17.75%, according to the latest updates provided by the country’s Central Election Commission on early Monday.

With 2230 of a total of 2533 polling stations now counted, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Nisma coalition secured 7.68%, while the Serbian minority party, Serbian List, received 3.96%.

The preliminary election results do not include the votes by the people with disabilities and the diaspora vote.

CEC announced that it will collect manually the data on the voting process from all the polling stations after technical delays due to server overload, slowing real-time updates.

The head of the Central Election Commission, Kreshnik Radoniqi said in a press conference that failure to release data or the preliminary election results via the electronic platform doesn’t affect the results and reassured the public that the issue had no impact on vote integrity.

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In a press statement after polls for mayoral elections officially closed, the head of the central election body warned that no election commissioners or vote counters will be tolerated if they fail to conduct and implement the Electoral Code provisions.

“I am confident that based on the legal deadlines we will have the election results on Monday evening,” Celibashi said.

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