Deadline reached for party certification for Kosovo municipal elections
(Lubomir Kotek/OSCE)OSCE ballot for municipal elections in Kosovo on 28 October 2000. (Lubomir Kotek/OSCE) Photo details
PRISTINA, 2 July 2002 - The four-week period for political party certification for Kosovo's forthcoming Municipal Elections ended on Monday, 1 July. By then, the Political Party Service Office of the Department of Elections at the OSCE Mission in Kosovo had received 58 applications from a wide cross-section of Kosovo's political society.
The applications included 25 political parties, 23 citizens' initiatives, 9 independent candidates, and one coalition. Of those, 21 were from Albanian political entities, 26 were from Serbian, 5 from Roma, Egyptian or Ashkali, 5 were from Bosniac/Gorani political entities, and one from a Turkish political entity.
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 compliance of the applications submitted with certification criteria, including the signature requirement.
All late applications will be forwarded to the Election Complaints and Appeals Sub-Commission (ECAC), which has the discretion to levy appropriate sanctions.
Entities which submitted certification applications will also be able to begin building their candidate lists for the candidate registration period, scheduled for between 8 and 29 July.
The applications included 25 political parties, 23 citizens' initiatives, 9 independent candidates, and one coalition. Of those, 21 were from Albanian political entities, 26 were from Serbian, 5 from Roma, Egyptian or Ashkali, 5 were from Bosniac/Gorani political entities, and one from a Turkish political entity.
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 compliance of the applications submitted with certification criteria, including the signature requirement.
All late applications will be forwarded to the Election Complaints and Appeals Sub-Commission (ECAC), which has the discretion to levy appropriate sanctions.
Entities which submitted certification applications will also be able to begin building their candidate lists for the candidate registration period, scheduled for between 8 and 29 July.