Kosova has gone through the first elections in its history since it declared its independence in 2008. It is recognized by 72 UN countries, but Serbia still shows a big reaction against this independence on behalf of its own interests upon the region. After this big development, Kosovo was up to be election process and elections did happen on 12 December 2010. The elections were big movement for this small country in order to prove its independence and the new policies that would be introduced to the international area. The winner of the elections was the leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo; Hashim Thaci and he became the new president of the Kosovo. His first declaration about the results of the elections and his new policies upon the country were based on the membership of EU, UN, and NATO. He supported this declaration by the statement; "Electoral body voted for a country whose future will be secure, social and economically developed and a country whose face will be turned to EU." Thaci also declared that the results of the elections show the victory of European and American values. Although he took the votes of majority of the population, he has been named in the media in connections to serious accusations. Thaci was named in the Marty Report as the ringleader of a KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) gang accused of kidnapping Serbs of Kosovo and selling their body parts in 1999 and 2000. Based on these accusations, he lost some of his presidential persuasion among the citizens but he continues to create a hopeful future for the country based upon the West connections. Most of the European countries, especially France, framed that the results of the elections are very promising for both Kosovo and Europe. And also EU declared that the elections have big importance on the process of the Kosovo's membership to EU. This relation supports the idea that Kosovo and EU have mutual interests for each other.
Although Kosovo has 1 million 630 thousand total population, only 45 percent of its citizens voted in the elections. The first reason of this small percentage is bounded to the boycott that is leaded by Serbs who are the citizens of the Kosovo. It is claimed that Bishop of Prizren Artemije on Sunday Ritual urged Kosovo Serbs to boycott the local elections, he described the vote as a ‘trap' to make Serbs recognize Kosovo's independence adding Serbs would never agree to back this illegal situation. The biggest reason of that is the willingness of the Serbs to have territorial integrity over Kosovo. The second reason of decrease in vote percentage could be claimed as the air of the idea of "new nation" and self-governing that is felt by Europe and USA, did not appeal the citizens as the same way with the West. Because it is believed that Kosovo did not have the quality of self-governing and NATO is still in the first command of decision making. Due to this fact citizens believe Hashim Thaci follows the policies of Western world system and creates them according to their commands. According to those reasons people avoided to vote, in other words it can be counted as a reaction to the West policies. Citizens did not feel peaceful under the command of NATO and Europe. They ask for something connected with their own human rights and progress of the independent Republic of Kosovo. On the other hand Turkish citizens of Kosovo voted for their rights to struggle for their identity cards which should be arranged in Turkish. Hashim Thaci had praised them by using Turkish flag during his election campaign. He knew how to impress the electoral body in other words citizens.
Vetenvendojse Self-Determination Movement with the leader Albin Kurti completed elections with 17 percent and The Movement was taken part in the elections for the first time. Its focus is the territorial integrity of the country and solving the economic problems in the region itself. Albin Kurti and his party is a strong opposition to UN administration. Opposition party claims that Kosovo should focus on the means having sovereignty and economic development instead of membership to EU, UN, and NATO. Kurti says that his party is committed particularly to the effective implementation of the rule of law in addressing war crimes, corruption, Serbia's parallel structures and the grey economy. According to him coalition party is only interested in institutional crisis, not crisis in socio-economic. Serbia wants to create a Serbian Republic in Kosovo like in BiH. In order to be able to fog a mirror in front of Serbia, Kosovo should firstly control its economy. According to Kurti, the coalition party disregards these facts while making policies because economic conflicts that exist in domestic arena should be at the top to be solved instead of the membership to EU while Serbia problem is on the table. Kurti supports that in order to develop state interests; the core assumption is to solve the inner conflicts. Kurti did not support the Western- based policies and it seems that Kurti's opposition is going to be very strong in both international and domestic affairs.
These new elections compose a coalition government which are aimed at; to normalize the diplomatic relations with Serbia, to solve the border conflicts, and the problem with Serbia can be solved with the Kosovo's concession of a bit loss of its territory because there is this dilemma; on one side Serbia which is preparing itself for the membership of EU and on the other side Kosovo which is recognized only by 72 countries of UN. The opposition side which is in the hand of Albin Kurti may press this process of the new government because besides all the difficulties another problem in the country that is waiting to be solved is the unemployment. It is peculiar that Thaci government seems to accept the loss of some territory in order to enter to EU but the opposition parties are strongly against to this idea as they are focused more on internal conflicts. Unemployment percentage is very high in the region and citizens are at the edge of the hunger. So the new government should make their policies in order to increase national income. Also new government should focus on raising the employment ratio. Actually these are the main expectations of the population.
The elections show that Kosovo is going to continue to struggle for the membership of EU, NATO and UN as the LDK and LPK were the winners of elections. Their targets are generally based on the West. Although the biggest problems in Kosovo are the unemployment, socio-economic problems there are no mention about the solutions to these conflicts. According to Tachi if Kosovo could not enter into EU or NATO, the alliance with Albania will be more and more possible. But the biggest problems in the country are with Serbia not Albania today. There is a big paradox here; the other coalition party LDK acclaimed that they will be in the opposition part so Tachi should looking for a new companion in his coalition. This shows the ineffectiveness of the new president. Even the coalition party did not want to take place near the winner side. All are suspicious about the new presidential age of Tachi. Kosovo seems to be faced with a harsh period under Hashim Tachi and the opposition side. Both of them have opposite understanding of policies and these opposite policies is going to create whether a chaos or a reunion. While Hashim Thaci is a strong defender of the West, Albin Kurti is a strong defender of domestic affairs. Opposition parties seem more close to the citizens and their expectations as their focus is the comfort of the citizens in their independent land. Hashim Tachi could come across with strong challenge on the behalf of these expectations. A new born era has began in one of the deep and small Balkanian country; Kosovo, both West and domestic issues have an eye on this country as it declared its independence at a very close time and Kosovo is a big feed for EU, UN and NATO interests. International system is going to wait and see what will be born from the new electoral results and how the effects change both Balkan and Western politics.