Ethnic Albanian party wins Kosovo election

Kosovo’s largest ethnic Albanian party won general elections in the UN-run province, but failed to gain the absolute majority needed to govern alone and will have to form a coalition government, according to final results released today.

President Ibrahim Rugova’s Democratic League of Kosovo won 45.42% in the October 23 elections, which were overshadowed by a boycott by the Serb minority, according to results released by the province’s Central Election Commission and the Vienna-based Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which supervised the vote.