Organs of state

摘要

A successful referendum on Kosovo's European future was how Hashim Thaci, the prime minister, described Kosovo's general election on December 12th, its first since independence in 2008. Mr Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo (pdk) claims to have won the election, with 33.5% of the vote. But the news since the polls closed has been so bad that this future cannot be taken for granted. Election observers immediately said there had been widespread fraud. Two days later, the Council of Europe released an explosive draft report, by Dick Marty, a Swiss politician and former prosecutor, implicating Mr Thaci in drug smuggling and murder. Much of the ground it covers is familiar, but Mr Marty claims to have found backing for stories that had previously been dismissed for lack of evidence.