According to initial projections, the ruling self-determination party (Vetëvendosje) of incumbent Prime Minister Albin Kurti clearly won the early elections in Kosovo this Sunday (December 28, 2025) with around 44% of the vote, but without achieving an absolute majority.
According to the election poll, broadcast by the Klan Kosova network after schools closed at 18:00 GMT, self-determination received 44.1% of the vote, which would mean 49 out of 120 seats in parliament, just one more than in the February elections.
Kosovo has been in political paralysis since February, when the nationalist party in power lost the absolute majority it had achieved in 2021 and failed to receive support from any other force to form a government.
According to the same poll, the opposition Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) is in second place with 23.9% of the vote, which would give it 27 seats, while the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) is in third place with 16.1% and 18 MPs.
In the February elections, the PDK won 24 seats and the LDK 20, so these forecasts are very similar to the results of the last elections, which left the country in paralysis given the inability of the Autodetermianción to form a government and the opposition to propose an alternative.
Twenty seats are reserved for the ethnic minorities of the former Serbian province that proclaimed independence in February 2008, ten of them for Kosovo Serbs and the rest for others such as Roma and Bosniaks.
These were the seventh parliamentary elections in Kosovo since its unilateral independence, a decision that was not recognized by Serbia or five European Union (EU) states: Spain, Romania, Greece, Slovakia and Cyprus.
ct (efe, afp)
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