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Kosovo still without a new Assembly/ 36 attempts to constitute it

2025-06-23 11:45:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Kosovo still without a new Assembly/ 36 attempts to constitute it

MPs continue to fail to constitute the new composition of the Kosovo Assembly four months after the February 9 parliamentary elections, leaving the country without new institutions.

Experts on legal and constitutional issues have criticized parliamentary parties for abusing the legal vacuum to form the Assembly.

Lawmakers met on Monday, for the 36th time in a row every other day since April 15, and abruptly adjourned without finding a solution to break the political deadlock. They will reconvene in 48 hours, on Wednesday, June 25.

The issue has stalled over the appointment of the Speaker and Deputy Speakers of the Assembly.

This is the 27th time that the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and the Serbian List have not proposed a single member to form a commission for a secret ballot for Vetëvendosje's candidate, Albulena Haxhiu, for Speaker of the Assembly, as Haxhiu has failed to obtain the necessary 61 votes in an open vote.

Kadri Kryeziu, former vice president of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo, told Radio Free Europe that the Constitution does not set a clear deadline for the constitution of the Assembly and this gap, according to him, is being misused by political parties.

"The drafters of the Constitution could not have foreseen this deviation, this destruction, which under normal circumstances should not have happened," said Kryeziu, referring to the blockage of the process.

Vetëvendosje, as the winner of the elections, is responsible for proposing a candidate for Speaker of the Assembly, and it constantly insists that Haxhiu is the right figure, although for other parties she is unacceptable and is considered a divisive figure.

The issue of changing the voting method – from open to secret – has been sent for interpretation to the Constitutional Court by parties that were in opposition in the previous legislature.





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