More than 1.5 million people are eligible to vote in the municipalities for mayors and assembly seats in Kosovo . Kosovo has long been a restive province of Serbia with a large ethnic Albanian population . Serbs and ethnic - Albanians fought a brutal war in the late 1990s , which ended after NATO bombing of Serbia . `` I invite all the members of Serb community who are citizens and residents of Kosovo to get involved in all fields of social and public lives . Ethnic - Albanians eventually declared the province independent in February 2008 , but Serbia opposed the declaration .
More than 1.5 million people are eligible to vote in the municipalities for mayors and assembly seats in Kosovo . Kosovo has long been a restive province of Serbia with a large ethnic Albanian population . Serbs and ethnic - Albanians fought a brutal war in the late 1990s , which ended after NATO bombing of Serbia . Ethnic - Albanians eventually declared the province independent in February 2008 , but Serbia opposed the declaration .