Kosovo’s ruling party of Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has claimed victory in an election marked by a low turnout.<br /><br />Frustration with widespread poverty and corruption kept the voters away. Only 43% of people cast a ballot.<br /><br />Kosovo voters are also angry at the lack of progress since Thaci presided over the territory’s secession from Serbia in 2008.<br /><br />His ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) is expected to hold onto a 3% lead over arch rival the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) <br /><br />Although Serbia does not recognise Kosovo independence it has encouraged ethnic Serbs to vote this time round to help both countries’ EU membership bids.<br /><br />The next government will come under immediate pressure with the findings due of a war crimes investigation. .<br /><br />Its alleged that Kosovo’s guerrilla army harvested organs from Serb prisoners of war and sold them on the black market during a conflict in the late 1990s.
