2007 Kosovan Parliamentary Election
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'Parliamentary elections were held in
Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...
on 17 November 2007 alongside
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. Voters elected the 120 members of the
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, the legislative branch of the
Provisional Institutions of Self-Government sr, Привремене институције самоуправе на Косову, Privremene institucije samouprave na Kosovu) , border = , image = , caption = Emblem , date = 4 March 2002 ...
that the
United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) is the officially mandated mission of the United Nations in Kosovo. The UNMIK describes its mandate as being to "help the United Nations Security Council achieve an overall ...
created. The elections were scheduled by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations,
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(head of the UNMIK) on 1 September 2007.


Results

Of the ten seats reserved for Serbs, six were won by four parties which decided to form a coalition on 5 December:
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's Serb Democratic Party of Kosovo and Metohija,
Dragiša Mirić Dragiša ( Cyrillic: Драгиша) is a version of the masculine given name Drago, and may refer to: * Dragiša Binić (born 1961), Serbian footballer *Dragiša Brašovan (1887–1965), Serbian modernist architect * Dragiša Burzan (born 1950), S ...
's Serb Kosovo-Metohija Party, Mihajl Šćepanović's Serb People's Party and Nebojša Živić's
Union of Independent Social Democrats of Kosovo and Metohija This article lists political parties in Kosovo. Kosovo has a multi-party system with numerous political parties, in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments ...
.


References

{{Serbian elections, state=collapsed Elections in Kosovo
Parliamentary A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democracy, democratic government, governance of a sovereign state, state (or subordinate entity) where the Executive (government), executive derives its democratic legitimacy ...
Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...
November 2007 events in Europe