Kosovo’s leader faces hunt for coalition partners after election

The people won. Vetevendosje! won. We are the winners who will form the next Cabinet,

Kurti told journalists as his supporters took to the streets to celebrate

Preliminary results show one true, exact and clear thing, and this is that the Vetevendosje movement has won the elections of February 9, 2025,

Kurti told supporters in the capital Pristina as crowds let off fireworks, banged drums and waved Albanian flags

We apologise to all Kosovo citizens,

head of election commission Kreshnik Radoniqi said

We are the first party, the winning party that will create the next government,

Kurti told reporters

There has never been more war than against this government,

Kurti said following the election

The Kurti Government was not trustworthy during Trump’s first term, nor during Biden’s term,

Grenell wrote

Everything went according to plan,

Kurti said following the election

They associate the European Union with human rights, with rule of law and with a better life. To get that, the new government has to work very, very actively. Hard homework is needed to be done. Reforms have to be done,

he told The Associated Press

Normalization of the relations is a must for Kosovo and for Serbia,

he said

He’s maybe a little bit boring, but definitely very knowledgeable. His campaign was focused on finance and the economy and jobs and economic growth,

he said

I encourage all the citizens of Kosovo to use this opportunity to decide on the next four years,

Kurti said after casting his ballot

What can we do? We were born here. Our graves are here. It will be better, I hope. We have to come out and vote. That is our duty,

Mileva Kovacevic, a Serb resident in northern Mitrovica, said

The CEC staff and … CEC members will be here all night working on entering all the data from the forms of the polling stations manually into the system,

the electoral commission chair Kreshnik Radoniqi told journalists

If we are concerned about potential plans for partitioning Kosovo, especially fears now amplified under a Trump administration, then establishing ASM would have been a way to prevent any kind of other solutions about the North,

Ilazi said

We have enhanced our cooperation with the US during our tenure. It used to be mainly diplomatic, and we have added defence and development,

Kurti said

We could well see a lot of very dangerous things happen for Kosovo over the next few years, maybe even including the withdrawal of Americans from Camp Bondsteel,

Anderson said

I would like to see Kosovo go back to the table with the EU and United States,

said Haki Abazi, who was once Kurti’s deputy prime minister but has recently joined one of the smaller opposition parties, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo

Vučić is not a leader who would go to war with Nato,

the prime minister said on Saturday

Relations have never been lower,

said Grenell, who a few days earlier had said

Lumir Abdixhikueconomist

We have an alternative to guarantee a better life in Kosovo,

said Lumir Abdixhiku of the LDK