Kosovo president election was illegal, court rules

PRISITNA, March 28 | Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:38am EDT

PRISITNA, March 28 (Reuters) - The election of Kosovo's president last month was unconstitutional, Kosovo's highest court ruled on Monday after an opposition party filed a complaint citing irregularities during the vote.

Opposition parliamentarians said irregularities marred the voting process when Behgjet Pacolli was elected president of the poor Balkan country of 2 million people.

It remained unclear whether there would be another vote in the parliament or if the president would have to resign. (Reporting by Fatos Bytyci; editing by Adam Tanner)

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