Xhaferi Comments on Plans for Scheduling Local Elections

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi will towards the end of July or start of August schedule the local elections that should be held in the second half of October. The exact date when they will be scheduled depends on the information about when the mayoral terms end. As Xhaferi warned on Thursday, if the elections are held on 17 October, the campaign then could overlap for several days with the census of the population, which will end on 30 September. “When the time comes, I will send a letter to the State Election Commission regarding the deadlines and terms,” he noted. According to Xhaferi, a session on one of the no-confidence motions filed by the opposition is supposed to be held by 1 July.