The Central Election Commission (CEC) has announced that the counting of the second batch of ballots cast outside Kosovo—specifically through mail-in voting—is continuing at the Counting and Results Center (CRC).
According to the CEC, approximately 16,000 mail-in ballot packages have so far been approved.
“As the counting process continues, it will include ballots from mail-in voting collected on January 2 and January 5, 2026, from postal boxes abroad and which have so far been delivered to Kosovo,” the CEC stated.
On January 2, a total of 8,180 additional ballot packages were collected from nine postal boxes located in Prague, London, Paris, Zagreb, Stockholm, Istanbul, New York, Canberra, and Copenhagen. Meanwhile, on January 5, another 11,867 ballot packages were collected from 13 postal boxes in Tirana, Berlin, Vienna, Bern, Brussels, The Hague, Podgorica, Oslo, Skopje, Ottawa, Ljubljana, Rome, and Pristina.
So far, the majority of these packages have been delivered to Kosovo and have undergone verification and evaluation. Of these, around 16,000 have been approved and are currently being counted.
However, the CEC noted that 3,185 mail-in ballot packages have not yet arrived in Kosovo. These ballots were collected on January 2 and January 5 from postal boxes in Paris (1,962), Berlin (633), The Hague (61), Podgorica (125), and Ottawa (404).
