Kurti: We will do our best to constitute the Parliament

2025-07-02 12:45:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

The acting Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, said that he will do his best to constitute the Kosovo Assembly in the spirit of cooperation, to then continue with the formation of the new government.

Kurti made the comments after a meeting called by President Vjosa Osmani to discuss options for a way out of the institutional crisis.

He did not indicate whether he came up with any new proposals, or any other details from the conversation with Osman.

"We discussed it at length, we mentioned all the constituent elements... Madam President will also have meetings with representatives of other political parties. Maybe in the end we will be able to see if we have made progress," said Kurti, also the leader of the Vetëvendosje Movement.

"I believe we should give other meetings a chance, and then see what the progress is," he added to reporters.

Despite 40 attempts, the elected members of the Kosovo Assembly have not yet managed to constitute the legislative institution.

Parliamentary elections were held on February 9.

In a decision issued last week, the Constitutional Court of Kosovo ordered the constitution of the Assembly within 30 days.

Since the verdict, two more sessions have been held in the Assembly, but without result.

Representatives of political parties blame each other for lack of responsibility.

The Vetëvendosje Movement, which won the most votes in the February 9 elections, insists on the name of Albulena Haxhiu for parliamentary speaker.

But Haxhiu, for several times in a row, has failed to secure the 61 votes necessary for this position.

Vetëvendosje insists on a secret ballot, but other parties are against it, and therefore reject the request of the chairman of the constitutive session, Avni Dehari, to propose representatives for the commission that would oversee the secret ballot.

President Osmani's advisor, Bekim Kupina, said on June 30 that she expects the parties represented in the Assembly to implement the Constitutional Court's ruling and conclude the constitutive session within 30 days.

"If the need arises, the president remains ready to address the Constitutional Court for additional clarifications," said Kupina.

Experts on legal and constitutional issues say that the Constitutional Court's ruling does not seem to have brought a solution to the institutional crisis in Kosovo, so, according to them, the solution can only come through a political agreement, or with the intervention of the president./ Rel