More than 1.5 million people are eligible to vote in 36 municipalities for mayors and assembly members in Kosovo . Kosovo has long been a restive province of Serbia with a majority ethnic Albanian population . It unsettled the Balkan country and international officials looking forward to peaceful local elections on Sunday in a land scarred by conflict and now slowly on the mend . The region is home to the largest number of Serbs outside Serbia, but it also includes some 200,000 Kosovars who have lived there since before World War II, when they were expelled from what was then Yugoslavia. Ethnic-Albanians eventually declared the province independent in February 2008 , but Serbia opposed the move .
More than 1.5 million people are eligible to vote in 36 municipalities for mayors and assembly members in Kosovo . Kosovo has long been a restive province of Serbia with a majority ethnic Albanian population . The region is home to the largest number of Serbs outside Serbia, but it also includes some 200,000 Kosovars who have lived there since before World War II, when they were expelled from what was then Yugoslavia. Ethnic-Albanians eventually declared the province independent in February 2008 , but Serbia opposed the move .