Kosovo Assembly to Begin Procedure for Establishing New Legislature Tomorrow

Members of the Kosovo Assembly will convene tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. in the plenary hall to establish the eleventh legislature. The session will take place just one day before the constitutional deadline for completing this process expires.

The first step in the procedure will be the formation of the Temporary Commission for the Verification of Deputies’ Mandates. Once the commission presents its report and it is approved, the deputies will take the oath, after which the election of the Assembly speaker is expected to proceed, Vullnet Bugaqku of KDI announced.

“Only after the Assembly is constituted can the procedure for forming the Government begin, while the constitutional deadlines for the election of the President of the Republic will then also start,” said Vullnet Bugaqku of KDI.

However, in addition to the establishment of the legislature, the situation presents another constitutional issue related to the acting president. Bugaqku stressed that Article 90 of the Constitution clearly stipulates that this duty cannot be exercised for more than six months.

“This deadline expires on October 4, and if the new President is not elected by then, the country could face an unprecedented situation, as the Constitution and the Law on the President do not provide a mechanism for exceeding this time limit,” said Vullnet Bugaqku of KDI.

Political analyst Artan Muhaxhiri links the crisis to the lack of political will to secure the 80 votes needed to elect the president.

“In the absence of a political compromise, the country risks remaining blocked between constitutional deadlines, legal interpretations and challenges before the Constitutional Court, while the most realistic scenario remains that of new elections,” said Artan Muhaxhiri, a political analyst.

The new legislature of the Assembly was formed following the early parliamentary elections of June 7.