Avdullah Hoti

More than 1,000 MP candidates will be keeping their fingers crossed on Sunday, awaiting the voters' verdict in Kosovo's sixth parliamentary elections in under 14 years.

Some 28 political entities are on the ballot papers seeking votes in yet another early election. Since 20017, not one cabinet in Kosovo has succeeded in completing its full four-year term.

With only a few days left before Sunday's snap polls in Kosovo, voters are again having to turn their attention to the election pledges of the political leaders touring towns and villages.

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French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/FRANCOIS MORI / POOL MAXPPP OUT

It practically comes down to reconsidering the decision to move the Serbian Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, to which we have committed ourselves in the Washington agreement. This is also indicated by the statement of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vui, that we will "build relations with the Jewish state in accordance with the new circumstances."

According to IFIMES, Serbia is key to peace and stability in the region.

Kosovo Foreign Minister Meliza Haradinaj-Stublla signed the document establishing relations with Israel in Pristina on Monday in a diplomatic milestone for the country and a setback for Serbia - which has long invested great efforts in getting counties not to recognise, or de-recognise, its former province.

The debate raged for nearly seven hours, but eventually Kosovo's divided Central Election Commission, CEC, took a decision on January 22 that threatens the prospects of the popular Vetevendosje [Self-Determination] party in a Valentine's Day snap election.

Hundreds of family members of Kosovo Albanian civilians killed by Serbian forces on January 15, 1999 gathered on Friday in Recak/Racak, a village 20 kilometres south of Pristina, to commemorate the anniversary.

Forty-four people are confirmed to have been killed that day, and one woman remains missing.

Kosovo Police fined over 1,300 citizens in the last three days for not respecting government measures against COVID-19 - as political parties continue holding mass gatherings, preparing for the February 14 elections.

A man in Pristina votes at a polling station in the early parliamentary elections on October 6, 2019. Photo: EPA-EFE/GEORGI LICOVSKI

The decision came hours after the Constitutional Court ruled that Avdullah Hoti's current coalition government was illegitimate because it was voted into office with the help of an invalid vote cast by an MP with a criminal conviction.