Kosovo holds parliamentary decisions

Preelection rally in Ferizaj, Kosovo. Photograph: 3 June 2014 Mass unemployment has been the key issue for some voters in Kosovo

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Voters in Kosovo are because of cast their votes in parliamentary decisions, which are seen as a crucial test for the region's EU offered.

Executive Hashim Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) is planning to win the surveys, giving the ex-rebel warrior his third term in office.

However he is confronting a solid test from Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK).

Surprisingly since Kosovo's self-proclaimed freedom in 2008, Serbia is urging ethnic Serbs to vote.

This takes after a year ago consent to standardize relations between Belgrade and Pristina as a precondition for their offers to wind up parts of the EU.

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Surveying stations are because of open at 05:00 GMT and close at 17:00 GMT.

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Very nearly 30,000 screens are in Kosovo to keep a rehash of the misrepresentation which cursed the last race, the BBC's Balkans reporter Guy De Launey reports.

In 2010, negotiators and race screens saw tally stuffing and different irregularities, and voting must be held again at more than 20 surveying stations, our journalist says.

Despite the fact that Belgrade still rejects Kosovo's autonomy, it is empowering the ethnic Serb group to join in the decisions.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said it would "imprudent" for the Serbs to refuse the vote, as per the AFP news organization.

On the other hand, the key issue for some voters has been mass unemployment in the devastated domain.

Something like two out of three under-25s are as of now jobless, and about half of Kosovo's 1.8 million individuals are considered to be poor.