The Assembly of Kosovo is expected to hold today at 10:00 a.m. the last session for the election of the country’s new president. After the failure of the first round, if the parties do not reach an agreement, the Assembly will be dissolved and within 45 days the country will go to extraordinary parliamentary elections.
64 deputies participated in the first vote. Feride Rushiti received 63 votes, while one vote was declared invalid. The other candidate, Hatixe Hoxha, did not secure any votes. The opposition did not participate in the process, calling it unconstitutional.
The head of the Vetëvendosje Parliamentary Group, Arbërie Nagavci, said that the nominations were made to avoid new elections and that the session had a quorum to start. Meanwhile, the chairman of the PDK, Bedri Hamza, called the developments a “constitutional coup”, insisting that the Constitution requires the presence of 80 deputies for voting.
The chairman of the LDK, Lumir Abdixhiku, described the night as “heavy for democracy”, stressing that the president must be elected through a political agreement. The head of the AAK parliamentary group, Besnik Tahiri, called the session “an attack on the Constitution” and “an attempt at a coup d’état”.
A day ago, the head of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Lumir Abdixhiku, revealed the list of 15 deputies’ votes for, as he said, the candidate for president proposed by the LDK, not excluding the possibility that the votes would go to Vjosa Osmani.
“Here are 15 signatures of the Democratic League of Kosovo and I believe that this should have ended the entire political debate in Kosovo. 15 signatures of the LDK, for the proposed candidate of the LDK, but I did not want to make these signatures part of political games, because they are serious”, he said.
