(di Ilire Zajmi) (ANSA) - PRISTINA, JUN 7 - Albin Kurti again won elections in Kosovo, but lost an absolute majority and will now have predictable difficulties forming a new government. The outgoing premier and his Vetvëndosje movement, with three small allies, drops from the 51 percent he won last December to 43-46 percent. That's the result of Kosovo's third general election in the past 16 months, according to early exit polls, against preliminary data showing a sharply declining turnout: only one in three voters reportedly cast their ballot, a clear sign of fatigue from a political paralysis that has lasted for a year and a half now and is likely to be repeated in the new Kosovo Assembly. Unless the three main opposition parties -- the second is the Pdk at 21-22 percent, heir to the stable Uck independence militia (had 21 percent), the third Ldk with former President Vjosa Osmani on the list at 17-18 percent (up from the previous 13 percent) and the Aak at 7 percent (up from 5.6 percent in December) -- all conservative, decide to put aside their recent enmities and agree to form an alternative majority. Kurti, a populist center-left nationalist, thus seems to have missed a historic opportunity in the last ephemeral legislature, which lasted four months in all, in which he had 57 seats out of 120: a victim of his own oppositional attitude, which produced the same mirror effect in his main opponents, resulting in institutional paralysis. Indeed, Kosovo has had neither a president of the Republic nor a speaker of parliament for more than two months. Indeed, for Kurti it is a step backward from the vote in February last year, when a parliament with no majority-Kurti had only 42 percent-failed to produce a majority government. It may be only these parties in the Albanian majority that have passed the 5 percent threshold. As for the Serbian minority, which is constitutionally guaranteed 10 seats, the Belgrade-linked Srpska Lista (Sl) would have about 5 percent, and it remains to be seen whether they will make the en plein. According to preliminary results in the largest of the Serb municipalities in North Mitrovica, for example, with 30 percent of the votes counted it would have 75 percent against the realist, Kurti-friendly Spo Serb party, which falls short of 5 percent. Another 10 seats are reserved for other non-Serbian ethnic minorities (Roma, Turks, Bosniacs, and Egyptians), who almost always ally themselves with the incumbent government. The elections were monitored by some 16,000 domestic and international observers, but for the first time without an EU election observation mission. Since the proclamation of independence, voting for general elections has taken place seven times, three of them in the last 16 months alone. The cost of the entire electoral process was estimated at 10.9 million euros, a significant expense for one of the most economically fragile states in Europe. With a population of about 1.6 million, Kosovo remains particularly vulnerable to the effects of political instability. A recent report by the European Parliament called 2025 a "lost year" for Kosovo, warning that political stagnation could continue into 2026, undermining benefits from the EU Growth Plan and funds earmarked for the Western Balkans. (ANSA).