Surlic: Vote recount a matter of respecting legal procedure, election results clear

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, Stefan Surlic, assessed that the repeat counting of votes for parliamentary candidates after the parliamentary elections held in Kosovo on December 28 is more a matter of respecting legal and technical procedure, while it is essentially clear who the winner of these elections is.

“In this case, it is an absolute victory for Self-Determination. The election results are clear, and I assume that Self-Determination will very easily form a new government. After the final voting results are announced, I expect the government to be formed very quickly,” Surlic told Kosovo Online.

He believes that voters will not lose confidence in the electoral process due to the fact that certain irregularities were observed and that votes for parliamentary candidates are being recounted.

“Of course, there are certain suspicions, but even if there were a repeat of the voting, it would not lead to a significant change in the results,” Surlic said.

Given the differences in the number of votes for parliamentary candidates that were recorded during the recount in certain municipalities, the Central Election Commission of Kosovo decided yesterday to recount all votes from all polling stations in 28 municipalities, for which the CEC’s initial plan had been to conduct a recount at only ten percent of polling stations.