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Kosovo Opposition Wins Snap Vote for New Parliament

Associated Press

   PRISTINA, KOSOVO - Two Kosovo opposition parties emerged as the
   top-vote getters in Sunday's snap election of a new parliament held
   amid calls for leaders to resume dialogue with Serbia over normalizing
   ties.

   With 76% of the votes counted by the central Election Commission, the
   main governing election body, the left-wing Self-Determination Movement
   Party, or LVV, had 26% of the votes. It was just ahead of the
   center-right Democratic League of Kosovo, or LDK, with 25%.

   Self-Determination supporters took to the streets to celebrate.

   Kadri Veseli of the former governing conservative Democratic Party of
   Kosovo conceded defeat. His party won 21%, followed by its governing
   ally, the Alliance for Kosovo's Future of outgoing Prime Minister
   Ramush Haradinaj with 12%.

   The snap vote came after Haradinaj resigned in July following a request
   from a Hague-based court to question him over crimes against ethnic
   Serbs during and after the country's 1998-99 war. The conflict was
   ended by a NATO military intervention against then-Serbian strongman
   Slobodan Milosevic's bloody crackdown on Albanian independence
   fighters' insurrection.
   

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