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Vetevendosje leader Albin Kurti described early election results placing his party on around 48 percent of the vote as a triumph for the people, while PDK and LDK both conceded defeat late on Sunday night.
Three exit polls released as voting closed in Sunday’s parliamentary election put Vetevendosje in first place with between 42 and 53 percent of the vote.
Despite the subzero temperatures and heavy snowfall, more than 145,000 voters had cast their ballots by 11 a.m. in Kosovo’s fourth parliamentary election in less than seven years.
BIRN visited Prishtina International Airport on Friday, where hundreds of members of the Kosovo diaspora were arriving in order to cast their vote in Sunday’s election.
The effects of the Washington agreements divided representatives from LDK and Vetevendosje in a BIRN electoral debate on Thursday.
