"In accordance with the Constitution"/ PDK supports the dissolution of the Assembly

2026-03-07 17:09:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

"In accordance with the Constitution"/ PDK supports the dissolution of

The Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) has supported the decision of Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani to dissolve the Assembly, saying that it is in accordance with the Constitution after MPs failed to elect a new president within the constitutional deadline.

PDK MP, Përparim Gruda, argued that the Constitution clearly sets the deadlines for electing the president, stipulating that the president must be elected no later than 30 days before the end of the current president's term.

He said that the interpretation of some parliamentary majority officials for a 60-day deadline does not invalidate this provision.

"Article 82, paragraph 1, stipulates that the procedure for electing the president may last up to 60 days, but this article does not cancel or exceed the 30-day deadline set in Article 86," Gruda said during a press conference.

According to him, the 60-day deadline is about the duration of the procedure and not about extending the deadline for electing the president.

So, Gruda argues that the Constitution states that the process can last up to 60 days, but must be completed at least 30 days before the end of the current president's term.

President Osmani also said a day earlier that March 5 was the constitutional deadline for electing a new president, 30 days before the end of her mandate on April 4.

She issued a decree dissolving the Assembly, thus starting the process towards early parliamentary elections.

Osman's decree has been sent to the Constitutional Court by the Vetëvendosje Movement and, a day earlier, Prime Minister Albin Kurti said that the 30-day deadline means that the procedure must begin, but not be completed.

"We have 60 days to make choices or not make choices ," Kurti said.

The last session to elect the president was interrupted due to lack of quorum, as the opposition parties' deputies were absent from the hall. The candidates for the post were Glauk Konjufca and Fatmire Kollçaku-Mullhaxha from the Vetëvendosje Movement.

Meanwhile, at the same conference, the chairman of the PDK Parliamentary Group, Arian Tahiri, said that the country is heading towards new elections because the parliamentary majority has not sincerely sought a political agreement for the post of president.

Tahiri accused the Vetëvendosje Movement of aiming for complete control over the country's institutions.

"When you reject the agreement and insist on party candidates, the message is clear: the problem is not the president, but the desire to control every institution in the country," he said.

Kurti also accused the opposition a day earlier of not cooperating properly in the election of the president. Last year, Kosovo held two parliamentary elections. In both, the Vetëvendosje Movement emerged victorious.

With a victory of over 51 percent in the last elections, the LVV had no problems forming a government, as its deputies enjoy 57 seats in the Kosovo Assembly and the votes of ten deputies from non-majority communities.

But the votes to elect a president were not the only ones. A candidate must secure two-thirds of the votes of the deputies in the 120-seat Assembly, while the quorum is reached with 80 deputies. If in the first two rounds a candidate does not secure 80 votes, then in the third round of voting it is enough to have 61. /REL