One day before election day in Kosovo, Kosovo citizens living in 18 different countries around the world will be able to vote at diplomatic missions located in those states.
This marks the third time Kosovo will organize in-person voting in a large number of countries where the diaspora is primarily concentrated.
The spokesperson of the Central Election Commission (CEC), Valmir Elezi, stated that on June 6, voting centers will open in 30 diplomatic missions of the Republic of Kosovo to enable voting for more than 27,724 Kosovo citizens who have registered and selected this voting method.
“On June 6, the voting process for the Kosovo Assembly elections will take place in 17 embassies and 13 consulates spread across 18 different countries worldwide. According to local time, voting will first begin at the Embassy in Ankara and the Consulate of Kosovo in Istanbul, followed by the opening of other voting centers in diplomatic missions across European countries. Finally, voting will close in the United States and Canada, where polling stations will be opened at the embassies in Washington and Ottawa, as well as the consulates in New York and Toronto,” Elezi said.
Elezi also explained the changes that accompanied the process of determining the diplomatic missions where physical voting would take place. Initially, the CEC had planned for voting to be organized in 48 diplomatic missions, but this number was reduced to 30 after the number of registered voters in 18 of those missions was below 50.
“According to the Electoral Regulation on Registration and Voting Outside Kosovo, if the number of voters registered to vote at a diplomatic mission is below 50, physical voting at that mission will not be organized, and the registered voters will automatically be transferred to postal voting status and notified accordingly by the CEC. In general, the number of registered voters in these 18 diplomatic missions where physical voting will not take place is fewer than 100. All of these voters will be able to vote by mail, a process that began on May 21 and will end on June 6,” Elezi stated.
The voting process on June 6, 2026, will take place at the following diplomatic missions:
- Germany (Berlin – Embassy; Frankfurt – Consulate; Hamburg – Consulate; Munich – Consulate; Stuttgart – Consulate; Düsseldorf – Consulate)
- Switzerland (Bern – Embassy; Geneva – Consulate; Zurich – Consulate)
- United Kingdom (London – Embassy)
- France (Paris – Embassy; Strasbourg – Consulate)
- Belgium (Brussels – Embassy)
- United States of America (Washington – Embassy; New York – Consulate)
- Norway (Oslo – Embassy)
- Austria (Vienna – Embassy)
- Canada (Ottawa – Embassy; Toronto – Consulate)
- Sweden (Stockholm – Embassy)
- Slovenia (Ljubljana – Embassy)
- Denmark (Copenhagen – Consulate)
- Italy (Rome – Embassy; Milan – Consulate)
- Türkiye (Ankara – Embassy; Istanbul – Consulate)
- Croatia (Zagreb – Embassy)
- Netherlands (The Hague – Embassy)
- Czech Republic (Prague – Embassy)
- Hungary (Budapest – Embassy)
According to the Law on General Elections, the voting process outside Kosovo takes place before election day in Kosovo and is divided into two main parts: postal voting, which began on May 21 and will end on June 6, with approximately 105,000 registered voters; and physical voting at diplomatic missions, organized one day before election day in Kosovo, on June 6.
