Traditionally, supporters of that party gathered in front of the headquarters of the Serbian List, who marched in two columns collective vote.
A column led by the president of the list, Zlatan Elek, headed towards the "Sveti Sava" Elementary School. Voting started at seven o'clock in the morning, and Elek and the convoy arrived at the polling station around eight thirty.
Photo: Milica Srejić/VremeCrowd in front of "Sveti Sava" elementary school
The river of people in front of the polling stations was not in the mood to talk to the "Vremena" reporter. When asked what they expected, they answered: "We wouldn't, sorry"; "We don't know."
And it was with "We don't know" that Radoj Domanović's short story "Leader" ended. And this picture at the beginning of the voting day really reminded me of that story.
Photo: Milica Srejić/VremeA river of people in the corridors of STS "Mihailo Petrović Alas"
Around ten o'clock, the leader of the Serbian Democracy, Aleksandar Arsenijević, came to vote at the "Sveti Sava" elementary school. A woman from Mitrovica approached him at the entrance to the school, who hugged him and greeted him.
After the vote, in an address to the media, he said: "This is a historic moment to change some things." You are alone behind the screen and no one has a fortune teller to know who voted for whom".
Photo: Milica Srejić/VremeLeader of the Serbian Democracy, Aleksandar Arsenijević at the vote in the "Sveti Sava" elementary school
There were no queues for voting during the day in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica. Mitrovica residents greeted each other on the streets and asked if they had gone to vote.
Irregularities observed
In the voting centers for conditional voting in Zubin Potok and Zvečan, the police, including special units, were observed right next to the voters and in front of the buildings, the KoSSev portal wrote.
Prosecutor Ljaura Pulja said that six people were arrested for possible influence on voters, while three cases are in custody for investigation. During the day, a woman was detained in Zvečan for photographing a ballot paper, but was later released.
The citizens of Mitrovica who voted in the elections noticed bad fingerprinting of the voters who went to the polls. Namely, they marked the finger with a marker or a pen that could be wiped off with alcohol. Before the elections, the "Democracy in Action" coalition, which monitors and observes the elections, expressed doubts about the quality of the ink used to mark voters' fingers in the elections.
Dušan Radaković from "Democracy in Action" underlined for "Vreme" that most of the irregularities were at the very beginning of the day, and that during the day there were some minor things that were not so serious.
The police entered three places, but they reacted to that, he says.
Photo: Milica Srejić/VremeDušan Radaković from "Democracy in Action"
During the day, unofficial information appeared that the system for conditional voting in the entire territory of Kosovo did not work. Radaković says that this information is not correct.
"There were problems in Zubin Potok because there were not enough ballots for conditional voting. Mostly the system did not work due to the insufficient number of people at the polling stations. Albanian parties did not come to the north in the number they should have, so it was the main problem that the polling stations for conditional voting did not start on time. In the municipality of Leposavic, it was the most drastic, where there was a delay of two and a half hours," explains the interlocutor of "Vremena".
When asked how the problem was solved, he states that people came, material arrived, the computer worked.
What does conditional voting mean?
If voters cannot vote at the intended polling station for objective reasons, and their name is on the voter list, the CEC ensures that there is a place for conditional voting in every municipality in Kosovo.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) installed surveillance cameras at polling stations that monitored the regularity of the voting process and the counting of votes.
According to the KoSSev portal, the criticism was that this violates the secrecy of the vote, and the Serbian community specifically pointed to the risk of intimidation.
Radaković says how much and whether they helped - we'll see.
Turnout and potential results
The Central Election Commission of Kosovo (CEC) announced that the process went smoothly and without problems. By 19 p.m., according to CEC data, 40,04 percent of citizens had come out.
The record turnout was in Zubin Potok with 55,08 percent, in Zvečan 52,94 percent, and Priština 55,68 percent. In Gračanica, it was 22,07 percent, while in North Mitrovica, only 5,3 percent of voters turned out. Out of a total of 18,781, 996 of them voted.
The KoSSev portal wrote that there is a striking difference between North Mitrovica and other municipalities in the North, in relation to the small percentage of turnout in North Mitrovica, especially in relation to the neighboring Zvečan, and the crowds at the polling stations from the early hours of the morning.
Also striking is the discrepancy between CEC data and images at polling stations in the North, where people go to the polls, and the early morning hours were marked by crowds.
The counting of ballots began after 19 p.m., the CEC announced.
Pristina media published the first estimates and they differ. Television KTV reports that Samopedeljeni won the highest percentage, 42 percent. While television T7 came out with the lowest percentage (for Self-Determination) of 37 percent.
According to all these estimates, PDK is in second place, and LDK is in third place. While the AAK and NISMA coalition also enters the parliament.
