According to data from the Central Election Commission (CEC), the number of citizens with the right to vote at polling stations, out of 2 million 47 thousand 295 citizens, in the Republic of Kosovo are 1 million 970 thousand 944 voters, while the number of citizens who are registered to vote outside Kosovo is 104 thousand 924.

Out of 1.6 million inhabitants from the last population census, the number of citizens over 18 years of age, based on data from the Kosovo Agency of Statistics, in Kosovo is 1 million 179 thousand 73. This means that 868,224 citizens with the right to vote are residing abroad.

Of these 868,224 citizens with the right to vote, only 104 or 924% are registered to vote in the diaspora.

However, apart from this age group in the country, ASK does not yet have official data on the number of residents over 18 years of age recently registered in the diaspora.

"Regarding diaspora data, this data is in the verification and cleaning phase and is not ready to be published," says the ASK response via email.

On the other hand, the Kosovo Central Commission said that the total number of residents with the right to vote in Kosovo and the diaspora was obtained from the Civil Registration Agency (ARC).

The ARC also said that the total number is 2 million 47 thousand 295, without including the diaspora.

"The number of citizens who are 18 years old and who will turn 18 on 09.02.2025, that we have sent to the CEC, is 2047295," say the ARC within the Ministry of Interior.

The former chairman of the Central Electoral Commission, Mazllum Baraliu emphasizes the importance of updating voter lists and cleaning up the civil registry to have accurate information regarding the number of registered citizens, both those living within the country and those in the diaspora.

University professor, Mazllum Baraliu It also says that the lack of sufficient updating of lists in the civil registry at the central and local levels and emigration are among the factors that influence the discrepancy between the number of residents in the ARC and ASK.

Meanwhile, the director of the "Germin" organization, Lirim Krasniqi, says that with the increase in voting opportunities, it is expected that more than 75 percent of those registered from the diaspora will exercise their right to vote.

On February 4, 36 packages of ballots were brought to the CEC, which belong to the voting by mail process, to the CEC mailboxes outside Kosovo, from Germany and Switzerland.

This period of voting by mail, which applies only to citizens who, during their registration as voters outside Kosovo, have individually determined the method of voting (1) by sending the ballot by mail to one of the mailboxes opened by the CEC outside Kosovo, or (2) by sending the ballot by mail to the CEC mailbox in Kosovo.

This voting period began on January 9 and will end on February 8, 2025. Also, the ballots for voting in Kosovo are now ready.

In total, according to the CEC decision, 1,752,650 ballots have been printed, of which they are divided into regular ones, conditional ones, for voting by persons with special needs, but also reserve ones, as well as for voting at diplomatic missions.

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Below you can see the graph for the number of voters inside and outside Kosovo: