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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > International > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters Kosovo's statehood faces first test at local polls Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:32pm EST Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By Fatos Bytyci and Branislav Krstic PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo held its first elections on Sunday since declaring independence from Serbia last year, with unemployment, corruption, poor infrastructure and low investment the biggest issues for voters. The local polls are seen as a key test for Kosovo which wants to establish itself as a fully functioning democracy and gain acceptance from more countries than the 63 that have so far recognized it as an independent state. "Today we are showing that our country and its citizens have deserved independence, democracy and the European Union perspective," said Kosovo's prime minister, Hashim Thaci. Analysts say the low turnout, 45 percent, reflects the disappointment many Kosovars feel in their leaders for failing to improve the economy of one of Europe's poorest countries. "The faith is lost in Kosovo because of high corruption among the political parties," Halil Matoshi, a political analyst said. "People that vote today are mainly party militants." The turnout among Kosovo's Serbian minority was minimal. The Election Commission said there were no major irregularities and polling stations closed at 1800 GMT. Few expect the winners of the local elections to change the 40 percent unemployment rate and create jobs for the 30,000 young people who enter the job market every year. Many of them continue to leave the country to find work abroad. "We need water, better roads, and elevators in our apartments, which are the municipality's job," said Hasim Canolli, 60, after voting in the capital Pristina. "The independence issue is over, and people need jobs now." Serbian leaders in Belgrade warned their ethnic kin in Kosovo not to "legitimise Kosovo's independence." "When my president, my government and my Church in Belgrade told me not to vote, of course I will not vote," said Snezana Markovic in the Serb stronghold of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo. But some voters from the Serb minority in southern parts of the country voted for their new municipalities as foreseen in the Kosovo independence plan drafted by former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, but the turnout was also low. Around 1.5 million people were eligible to elect mayors and local councils in 36 municipalities. Clear winners will emerge only after second-round mayoral run-offs in a month's time. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, nine years after NATO bombs drove out Serb forces to stop the killing of ethnic Albanians in a two-year counter-insurgency war. Mostly Western countries have recognized Kosovo's independence, but not Serbia, its former ruler, nor Russia. Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! Facebook LinkedIn Next Article: Australia's Rudd says sorry to orphans, child migrants Analysis Karzai image in tatters Just how far Hamid Karzai's reputation has fallen is summed up by a cartoon in the Economist, which shows the newly re-elected Afghan leader seated at a table -- between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Robert Mugabe. Full Article Blog: Will latest polls weigh on Obama? 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