Kosovo’s President Vjosa Osmani disbanded the national legislature on Friday and ordered another round of snap elections after lawmakers missed the constitutional deadline to select a new president.
The 120-member legislative body had until Thursday at midnight to choose a head of state, but Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s governing Vetevendosje party failed to gather enough support or convince opposition members to back their candidate, Foreign Minister Glauk Konjufca.
“A parliament that cannot elect a president cannot continue indefinitely to drag out the process as is being attempted,” Osmani stated.
Opposition groups had requested a compromise candidate that all parties could support, while Kurti pushed forward with his foreign minister as the nominee.
This represents the third emergency election in slightly more than 12 months for Kosovo, which previously held snap voting on December 28 following the legislature’s inability to establish a government after February 2025’s electoral contest.
