2021 Kosovan parliamentary election

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All 120 seats in theAssembly 61 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	48.78% ( 4.19pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– LVV[a] Albin Kurti 50.28 58 +29 PDK Enver Hoxhaj 17.01 19 −5 LDK[b] Avdullah Hoti[c] 12.73 15 −15 AAK Ramush Haradinaj 7.12 8 −5 Minority seats SL Goran Rakić 5.09 10 0 KDTP Fikrim Damka 0.75 2 0 Vakat Bahrim Šabani 0.62 1 −1 IRDK Elbert Krasniqi 0.38 1 0 RI Gazmend Salijević 0.36 1 New NDS Emilija Redžepi 0.33 1 0 SDU Duda Balje 0.29 1 New JGP Adem Hodža 0.25 1 0 PAI Bekim Arifi 0.25 1 0 LPRK Erdžan Galjuši 0.14 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Most voted-for party by municipality  LVV SL PDK AAK KDTP Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Avdullah Hoti LDK Albin Kurti LVV

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Parliamentary elections were held inKosovo on 14 February 2021. The results were a landslide victory forVetëvendosje led byAlbin Kurti and its coalition partner,Vjosa Osmani, former speaker of theparliament of Kosovo. The alliance won more than 50% of the total votes, the highest share since the first elections held in2001, while their nearest rivals, theDemocratic Party, finished in second place, trailing by more than 33%.

TheOctober 2019 parliamentary elections saw opposition partyVetëvendosje emerge as the largest faction in parliament, finishing just ahead of theDemocratic League of Kosovo (LDK). The two parties formed a new government on 3 February 2020, with Vetëvendosje leaderAlbin Kurti as thePrime Minister. Kurti was elected Prime Minister with 66 votes and ten abstentions. The 34 opposition MPs boycotted the vote and left the Assembly building. The coalition soon collapsed as the LDK filed a no-confidence motion on 25 March 2020 due to disagreements over how to handle the coronavirus pandemic. The motion passed, with 82 members of the Assembly voting in favor, the first time a Kosovan government had fallen in such a manner. The Kurti cabinet continued in office as a caretaker government, while the LDK leaderAvdullah Hoti attempted to form a government. Although Hoti's eligibility to be Prime Minister had been questioned by Kurti and Vetëvendosje, who claimed that a government could not be formed without the party that won the most seats in the previous elections, on 28 May theConstitutional Court confirmed the LDK had the right to form a government without fresh elections. The Court ruled that after the party that won the elections failed again to form a new government, another party was able to, and Hoti could be approved as Prime Minister in a parliamentary vote.

On 3 June Hoti was elected Prime Minister by a vote of 61–24, with one abstention. However, on 21 December the Constitutional Court ruled that the vote of Etem Arifi of the minorityAshkali Party for Integration in favour of Hoti was invalid (as Arifi had been convicted of fraud) and consequently the government had not received the support of the majority of the Assembly.^[1] As a result, fresh elections were called, with the Hoti government continuing as a caretaker government.

The 120 members of the Assembly of Kosovo are elected byopen listproportional representation, with 20 seats reserved for national minorities.^[2] An electoral threshold of 5% is in place for non-minority parties. Seats are allocated using theWebster/Sainte-Laguë method.^[3] To form a government, a party or coalition must have a majority of 61 MPs out of 120 seats in the Assembly of Kosovo.

The Election Commission published the official list of the 28 participating parties and coalitions.^[4]

Vetëvendosje won the most votes that any party has won in any Kosovan election since independence. The previous vote share record was held byIbrahim Rugova's victory in 2001 with 359,851 votes. The 2021 election saw a record number of non-resident citizens who participated in the election viapostal voting. In comparison to 35,087 in the 2019 election, 102,100 non-resident citizens gained the right to vote via postal voting in the 2021 election.^[5] The counting of the locally cast ballots was completed within a week, while the diaspora vote count was finished on by 3 March.^[6]

In the initial results, two newly created minorities parties that had been backed by theSerb List (Romani Initiative and United Community) won two and one seat, respectively. However, the parties faced accusations of strategic voting organised by the Serb List in order gain control of seats outside the ten reserved for Serbs.^[7] More than 200 complaints to the Election Panel triggered an investigation that discovered many irregularities, including a suspicious 49% increase in the Bosnian minority vote compared to the 2019 elections, with a large share of those votes having been cast in Serb-dominated areas rather than in their own communities.^[8] This led the panel to remove hundreds of votes cast,^{[9][why?][clarification needed]} which caused the loss of one of the two seats won by the Romani Initiative and the single seat won by United Community, a decision confirmed by the Supreme Court.^[10][11] The final result was certified by theCentral Election Commission (KQZ) on 13 March.^[12]

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Vetëvendosje	438,335	50.28	58	+29
	Democratic Party of Kosovo	148,285	17.01	19	–5
	Democratic League of Kosovo	110,985	12.73	15	–15
	Alliance for the Future of Kosovo	62,111	7.12	8	–5
	Serb List	44,407	5.09	10	0
	Social Democratic Initiative	21,997	2.52	0	–4
	Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo	6,496	0.75	2	0
	Vakat Coalition	5,366	0.62	1	–1
	New Democratic Initiative of Kosovo	3,305	0.38	1	0
	Romani Initiative	3,172	0.36	1	New
	New Democratic Party	2,885	0.33	1	0
	Social Democratic Union	2,549	0.29	1	New
	Egyptian Liberal Party	2,430	0.28	0	–1
	United Community	2,217	0.25	0	New
	Unique Gorani Party	2,161	0.25	1	0
	Ashkali Party for Integration	2,138	0.25	1	0
	Democratic Ashkali Party of Kosovo	1,960	0.22	0	0
	Civic Initiative for Freedom, Justice and Survival	1,508	0.17	0	New
	Our Initiative	1,375	0.16	0	New
	Movement for Integration	1,261	0.14	0	New
	Innovative Turkish Movement Party	1,243	0.14	0	New
	Progressive Movement of Kosovar Roma	1,208	0.14	1	New
	Fjala	1,087	0.12	0	0
	United Roma Party of Kosovo	1,074	0.12	0	–1
	Coalition Together (GIG–PG)	1,010	0.12	0	0
	Kosovar New Romani Party	600	0.07	0	0
	Serbian Democratic Alliance	476	0.05	0	New
	Albanian National Front Party	155	0.02	0	New
Total		871,796	100.00	120	0
Valid votes		871,796	96.38
Invalid/blank votes		32,756	3.62
Total votes		904,552	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,851,927	48.84
Source:CEC,CEC,CEC

Albin Kurti, leader of the winning party,Vetëvendosje, called the results a vindication of his campaign claim that the election was a "referendum" on what he called a "seizure of the state" during the no-confidence vote held in 2020. All parties which are likely to stand in the opposition were part of the LDK-led governing coalition. They all accepted the results and congratulatedVetëvendosje.^[13]

Albanian prime ministerEdi Rama and main opposition leaderLulzim Basha both congratulated Kurti.^[14][13]Ali Ahmeti, leader ofDUI, the main ethnic Albanian party inNorth Macedonia, congratulated Vetëvendosje and pledged that his party would be a "brother, ally and supporter… as well as partner and cooperator".Shaip Kamberi, an ethnic Albanian MP in the parliament ofSerbia, hailed the electoral process and the election results, which according to Kamberi showed "both democratic capacities and functional institutions".^[13]

In light of the disappointing results for LDK, party leader Isa Mustafa announced that he would resign.^[15]

On 4 AprilVjosa Osmaniwas elected as the second femalepresident of Kosovo by the Assembly.^[16]

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