Deadline reached for party certification in Kosovo
Kosovo-wide elections are scheduled for 17 November 2001. (Lubomir Kotek/OSCE) Photo details
PRISTINA, 23 July 2001 (OSCE) - The four week period for political party certification for Kosovo's upcoming elections ended at 1700, on Friday, 20 July. At that time the political party service division of the OSCE's Department of Elections had received 32 applications from a wide cross section of Kosovo's political society.
The applications included three independent candidates, 28 political parties and one coalition. Of those, 16 were from Albanian political entities, two were from Turkish political entities, three were from Bosniac political entities, three from Roma, Egyptian and Ashkali political entities and four from Serbian political entities.
Submitting an application for certification, as these political entities have each done, does not automatically mean they will run in the election. The Central Election Commission still has to certify them, checking the signatures and the political party platform submitted with the application.
If a party has had serious problems meeting today's deadline for submitting its application, it can ask the Central Election Commission for an extension. It is up to the CEC to decide whether extensions will be granted and if so, for how long.
Last year nine political parties were granted extensions by the CEC.
All parties which have submitted applications now have a further two weeks to form coalitions, if they so choose.
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For more information please contact Claire Trevena, Spokesperson, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, tel.: (+381-38) 500-162 ext. 260, mobile: +377 (044) 500-150, e-mail: [email protected], website: www.osce.org/kosovo.
The applications included three independent candidates, 28 political parties and one coalition. Of those, 16 were from Albanian political entities, two were from Turkish political entities, three were from Bosniac political entities, three from Roma, Egyptian and Ashkali political entities and four from Serbian political entities.
Submitting an application for certification, as these political entities have each done, does not automatically mean they will run in the election. The Central Election Commission still has to certify them, checking the signatures and the political party platform submitted with the application.
If a party has had serious problems meeting today's deadline for submitting its application, it can ask the Central Election Commission for an extension. It is up to the CEC to decide whether extensions will be granted and if so, for how long.
Last year nine political parties were granted extensions by the CEC.
All parties which have submitted applications now have a further two weeks to form coalitions, if they so choose.
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For more information please contact Claire Trevena, Spokesperson, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, tel.: (+381-38) 500-162 ext. 260, mobile: +377 (044) 500-150, e-mail: [email protected], website: www.osce.org/kosovo.