KIPRED Institute has published the report “Local Elections in Kosovo 2013: Overview and recommendations for electoral reform”. This paper aims to provide a chronological description of the process of local elections 2013, including pre-election environment and the effects on the election of the dialogue for normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia. The agreement of April 19, 2013 between the two countries, among other things, aimed to organize elections for the first time under the laws of the Republic of Kosovo in the four northern municipalities mainly inhabited by the Serbian community.