(ANSA) - PRISTINA, JUN 7 - At 7 a.m., the 949 polling stations that will allow some 2 million Kosovo citizens, including those in the diaspora, to vote in general elections today for the third time in 16 months opened. Vying for the 120 seats that make up the Kosovo Assembly are 22 parties and three coalitions, the largest of which has allied the leftist populist nationalist party Vetëvendosje Movement (Lvv) of outgoing Prime Minister Albin Kurti with smaller formations: Guxo, Alternativa, and the Albanian Democratic Party, credited by some polls with 36 percent of the vote. Lined up against them, but not allied, are three center-right parties: the Democratic League of Kosovo (Ldk, 26 percent in polls), the Democratic Party of Kosovo (Pdk), an institutional transformation of the armed resistance militia Uck (24 percent), and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (Aak, 7-8 percent). Vying for the 10 seats reserved for the Serb minority are the Belgrade-linked Srpska Lista (Sl), competing with Nenad Rašić's Party for Freedom, Justice and Survival, which enjoys Kurti's support. Another 10 seats are reserved for other ethnic minorities. Polls will close at 7 p.m., and the first exit polls are expected around 8 p.m. Last night in downtown Pristina saw the final rallies of an election campaign that lasted 10 days in all, and is unlikely to produce much change in a balance of power that has been holding the country's political life at a standstill for the past two years. Kosovo has been in political crisis since elections on Feb. 9, 2025, and after a year of complete stalemate, with no certain majority, early elections on Dec. 28 finally gave Kurti's Lvv a certain majority. But cross-vetoes prevented the election of a president of the republic, and the legislature died after only four months. (ANSA).