The vote will determine who will lead the Kosovo side in stalled normalisation talks with Serbia, facilitated by the EU to move both states closer to joining the bloc.
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00:00The Kosovo parliamentary election scheduled for this Sunday will decide which government
00:07in Pristina will restart the negotiations with the Serbian community of Kosovo and Serbia.
00:14The talks sponsored by Brussels have stalled during the mandate of the outgoing Kosovan
00:18Prime Minister Albin Kurdi, a leftist nationalist that is struggling to win a clear majority.
00:24We need to go back to Brussels and continue our dialogue that has been initiated years
00:31back in order to close this chapter of disputes and move into another chapter which will bring
00:38more perspective to the Kosovo citizens, no matter of their origin.
00:46The EU and the US have imposed Kosovo sanctions for the derailment of the inter-ethnic dialogue
00:52between the Kosovan Albanian majority and the Serbs.
00:56Even Albin Kurdi said in a day or two that he will not form the association of the Serbian
01:02municipality. Actually, in our program we still expect full implementation of that agreement
01:08and creation of this association of Serbian municipalities.