The marathon of not reconstituting the Kosovo Assembly continues/The session fails again

2025-05-09 10:37:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

The marathon of not reconstituting the Kosovo Assembly continues/The session

Kosovo continues to be without a functional Assembly, as MPs have failed again – in their thirteenth attempt – to constitute a new Assembly.

The latest failure occurred on Friday, exactly three months after parliamentary elections were held on February 9th.

As in the sessions of the past few days, on Friday the chairman of the constitutive session, Avni Dehari, again requested the formation of a commission to oversee the secret ballot for the speaker of parliament.

The proposal did not receive enough votes and the session was adjourned to continue two days later, on Sunday morning.

Successive failures to constitute a new Assembly have deepened the country's political impasse, raising concerns about institutional paralysis and are seen as a test of Kosovo's state maturity.

No party won a majority to govern alone. The Vetevendosje Movement came out on top, winning 48 seats, 13 short of the minimum 61 needed to form a new government alone.

Although dozens of sessions have been called to constitute the Assembly, political divisions have continuously hindered this process.

Vetëvendosje is failing to secure the 61 votes needed to elect Albulena Haxhiu to the position of Speaker of the Assembly.

Haxhiu is seen by the Democratic Party of Kosovo and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo as a "divisive figure," while the Democratic League of Kosovo says it will not support any Vetëvendosje candidate for speaker of parliament.

Vetëvendosje insists that Haxhiu deserves to be elected and, although it has sought political agreements with other parties, has ruled out the possibility of bringing forward another candidate besides itself.

Despite some recent moves to break the deadlock, there is no agreement between parliamentary parties.

LDK, which came in third, winning 20 seats, has rejected Vetëvendosje's offer for a governing coalition.

Instead, LDK leader Lumir Abdixhiku has called for the formation of a transitional government among parliamentary parties until the country's president is appointed, i.e. in April 2026, when the current president Vjosa Osmani's term ends.

While Vetëvendosje has immediately opposed the idea of ??such a government, other parliamentary parties have expressed willingness to talk./ REL