Kosovo’s left-wing opposition party sees landslide win

Next PM faces various challenges, including reviving the economy, reducing unemployment, and fighting the pandemic.

Kosovo’s left-wing main opposition party has registered a clear victory in an early election held amid the coronavirus pandemic, economic downturn and stalled negotiations with wartime foe Serbia. With 98 percent of the votes counted on Monday, the Determination Movement Party had 48 percent support. That left it far ahead of the centre-right Democratic Party of Kosovo, or PDK, which won 17 percent and the conservative governing Democratic League of Kosovo, or LDK, which captured 13 percent of the vote.