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Central Election Commission approves final results of Kosovo's local elections
PRISTINA 3 November 2002
PRISTINA, 3 November 2002 - The United Nations Special Representative, Michael Steiner, has today certified the final results of the OSCE-organized Municipal Assembly elections in Kosovo on the positive recommendation of the Central Election Commission (CEC).
"According to the results, the ruling majority can and will change in some municipalities," said Pascal Fieschi, OSCE Head of Mission in Kosovo (OMIK). "The international community expects any transfer of power to be conducted in a responsible, mature and orderly fashion on the part of all parties."
"Many of those elected are new to municipal assemblies. But new or old, assembly members are responsible before voters to build effective, democratic and multi-ethnic municipal governments. Kosovo's Municipal Assemblies and their members will have the full support of the OSCE in this important work", he added.
The members have been elected in the order that they appeared on the certified list of candidates submitted by their party, coalition or citizens' initiative. However, replacements may have to be made under CEC rules.
Women will make up 28.5 per cent of the new municipal assemblies, 262 of them having been elected.
The final turnout in the election, in which 711,000 of the 1.32 million people eligible to vote did so, was 53.9 per cent.
For these elections a proportional representation system is used for the translation of votes into seats. It ensures that, in each municipality, the political entities are represented in the municipal assembly in proportion to the votes they received in that given municipality. The system used is the internationally recognized Saint-Lague formula. This method was already used successfully in the 2000 Municipal Elections and in the 2001 Kovovo Assembly election.
The results by municipality, showing the breakdown of votes and seats won by each political entity, are available on the OMIK website at www.osce.org/kosovo/elections.
"According to the results, the ruling majority can and will change in some municipalities," said Pascal Fieschi, OSCE Head of Mission in Kosovo (OMIK). "The international community expects any transfer of power to be conducted in a responsible, mature and orderly fashion on the part of all parties."
"Many of those elected are new to municipal assemblies. But new or old, assembly members are responsible before voters to build effective, democratic and multi-ethnic municipal governments. Kosovo's Municipal Assemblies and their members will have the full support of the OSCE in this important work", he added.
The members have been elected in the order that they appeared on the certified list of candidates submitted by their party, coalition or citizens' initiative. However, replacements may have to be made under CEC rules.
Women will make up 28.5 per cent of the new municipal assemblies, 262 of them having been elected.
The final turnout in the election, in which 711,000 of the 1.32 million people eligible to vote did so, was 53.9 per cent.
For these elections a proportional representation system is used for the translation of votes into seats. It ensures that, in each municipality, the political entities are represented in the municipal assembly in proportion to the votes they received in that given municipality. The system used is the internationally recognized Saint-Lague formula. This method was already used successfully in the 2000 Municipal Elections and in the 2001 Kovovo Assembly election.
The results by municipality, showing the breakdown of votes and seats won by each political entity, are available on the OMIK website at www.osce.org/kosovo/elections.