Diplomatic supervision of Kosovo elections

Early Kosovo elections called for December 12 will be monitored by two missions that will be under diplomatic supervision. One of them will be from the European Union, said reports on Thursday. Diplomatic supervision of Kosovo elections The election will be monitored by an observation mission headed by the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO), the Pristina-based daily Koha Ditore reported on Thursday, evaluating that the short period of time within which the election was organized had an “emergency situation” impact on the international factor. The daily also wrote that the embassies of major countries that had recognized Kosovo had consulted with EU representative Pieter Feith on setting up a mission of observers and election supervisors who would have diplomatic coordination. The Kosovo KDI organization, which gathers several NGOs, will be among the observers. It has also been confirmed that a group of European Parliament members, lead by EP Delegation for South East Europe Head Eduard Kukan, will also visit Kosovo. Chetnik wives and lawsuits Meanwhile, the ongoing election campaign among the Kosovo Albanian parties has seen a former member of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), Florin Krasnici, file a lawsuit against outgoing prime minister and fellow ex-KLA Hashim Thaci. Krasnici, who runs on the radical Self-Determination Movement ticket, is accusing Thaci of slander and insults. This came after Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) recently said in a statement that Krasnici's wife was - a Chetnik. The Chetniks were a WW2 Serbian royalist formation. "Everything that was mentioned in the PDK statement is slander, starting with the assertion that my wife is a Chetnik, my water factory in Radonjic, my ties to the Lamkos company, and claims that I took other people's wives. All this is being done against me by Hashim Thaci and his gang," Albanian language media are quoting Krasnici as saying. The PDK statement came after Krasnici expressed his dissatisfaction with the performance of Thaci's government, and after his decision to run on the Self-Determination Movement list. In 1998, and during the war in 1999, Krasnici was known in Kosovo as an "American messenger of Kosovo's Albanians", who collected money and arms for the KLA. Thaci reacted to the lawsuit by saying it was "ridiculous", and adding that the accusations have "election (campaign) character".

Diplomatic supervision of Kosovo elections

The election will be monitored by an observation mission headed by the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO), the Priština-based daily Koha Ditore reported on Thursday, evaluating that the short period of time within which the election was organized had an “emergency situation” impact on the international factor.

The daily also wrote that the embassies of major countries that had recognized Kosovo had consulted with EU representative Pieter Feith on setting up a mission of observers and election supervisors who would have diplomatic coordination.

The Kosovo KDI organization, which gathers several NGOs, will be among the observers.

It has also been confirmed that a group of European Parliament members, lead by EP Delegation for South East Europe Head Eduard Kukan, will also visit Kosovo.

Chetnik wives and lawsuits

Meanwhile, the ongoing election campaign among the Kosovo Albanian parties has seen a former member of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), Florin Krasnici, file a lawsuit against outgoing prime minister and fellow ex-KLA Hashim Thaci.

Krasnici, who runs on the radical Self-Determination Movement ticket, is accusing Thaci of slander and insults.

This came after Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) recently said in a statement that Krasnici's wife was - a Chetnik.

The Chetniks were a WW2 Serbian royalist formation.

"Everything that was mentioned in the PDK statement is slander, starting with the assertion that my wife is a Chetnik, my water factory in Radonjić, my ties to the Lamkos company, and claims that I took other people's wives. All this is being done against me by Hashim Thaci and his gang," Albanian language media are quoting Krasnici as saying.

The PDK statement came after Krasnici expressed his dissatisfaction with the performance of Thaci's government, and after his decision to run on the Self-Determination Movement list.

In 1998, and during the war in 1999, Krasnici was known in Kosovo as an "American messenger of Kosovo's Albanians", who collected money and arms for the KLA.

Thaci reacted to the lawsuit by saying it was "ridiculous", and adding that the accusations have "election (campaign) character".