PRISTINA (AFP) - Kosovo voted Sunday in its first elections since declaring independence in 2008, which look set to weaken Prime Minister Hashim Thacis grip on power. Police reported theats to minority Serb voters in North Kosovo but there were no reports of violence. Opinion polls ahead of the vote showed support for Thacis PDK at 30 percent, just two percent ahead of its main rival the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) led by Pristina mayor Isa Mustafa. Thaci looked relaxed in a leather jacket as he cast his vote in a elementary school in central Pristina accompanied by his wife and his young son. Kosovo is voting today for a European future, for visa liberalisation and (...) and integration into the European Union and the United Nations, he told a throng of journalists. Many in the 1.6 million strong electorate are disillusioned with the current leadership with Thacis reputation hurt by a string of corruption scandals involving his party officials. Thaci will win. He should hold be given four more years and you will see he will be the best prime minister Kosovo ever had, Feriz Krasniqi, a 29-year-old street vendor in Pristina told AFP. But many young people and the educated urban elite have turned their backs on the guerrilla leader-turned politician. I got up early to vote because Im not happy with the way the country was led. People suffered while politicians benefitted and we have to stop that, 39-year-old construction engineer Shaqir Zeneli said. Gunmen threatened the Serb minority in North Kosovo not to take part in the elections, police reported Sunday. The gunmen fired on an empty building, in the town of Zubin Potok, and left a written threat, police spokesman Besim Hoti said. The building is sometimes used by NATO-led peacekeepers and left a written threat. It was a political threat against the elections, he said, adding that it was not known who was behind it. But the building is almost empty and is not a residence of KFOR (the NATO led military mission in Kosovo) he added. The ethnic-Albanian majority declared Kosovo independent in February 2008, a move recognised by 72 countries including the US and all but five European Union members. Serbia, which still considers the territory as its southern province, has advised the 120,000-strong Serb minority in Kosovo not to vote. However, many of the 80,000 Serbs living in enclaves in central Kosovo are expected to go ahead and vote regardless of the boycott call. The majority Serb north, home to 40,000 Serbs, was to boycott the poll, even before Saturdays threats. Ten out of the 129 parliament seats are reserved for the Serb minority but it could go up to 15 if Serb turnout is high. More than 10 years after the war between the independence-seeking Albanian majority and forces loyal to then Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, Kosovo remains one of the poorest regions in Europe with nearly half the population living below the poverty line. The snap elections were called after an uneasy ruling coalition imploded late September. Analysts predict that Thacis hold on power will weaken as other parties profit from voters disappointment. Even if his party manages to remain the biggest in parliament there will be lengthy coalition negotiations and Thaci could be forced to accept big compromises in order to cling on to power.