Kurti's Vetevendosje Wins Kosovo Election Majority

Prime Minister Albin Kurti's Self-Determination Movement party secured a decisive victory in Kosovo's snap parliamentary election on Sunday, capturing approximately 50 percent of the vote with nearly all polling stations reporting, according to the Central Election Commission. The result positions the party to form a single-party government in the 120-seat assembly, ending ten months of political paralysis that followed the February election.

The election, the second in less than a year, was triggered after Vetevendosje won the most seats in February but failed to build a coalition amid collapsed negotiations with opposition groups. President Vjosa Osmani dissolved parliament in November, paving the way for the early vote. Four other parties, including the Democratic Party of Kosovo and the Democratic League of Kosovo, also crossed the threshold to enter parliament, though none approached Vetevendosje's share. Turnout details were not immediately available, but more than two million people were eligible to vote, including those registered abroad, with 20 seats reserved for minority communities such as Serbs, Roma, Bosniaks, Turks, and Gorani.

The deadlock had severely hampered...