2 hours agoReuters: Elections approaching, parties refused to rule with Kurti due to his reports with the West
Periskopi(8 months ago)
(8 months ago)Kosovo's parliament failed to elect Albin Kurti as prime minister Sunday, increasing the likelihood of early elections being announced to resolve the political stalemate following the unclear February parliamentary vote. Kurti, leader of the Vetevendosje party, which is currently serving as prime minister in office, received only 56 votes in parliament [...]
Kurti, leader of the Vetevendosje party, which is currently serving as prime minister in office, received only 56 votes in the 120-seat parliament -- five short of the necessary majority to form the government.
Opposition parties, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) voted against Kurti's candidacy.
It remains unclear whether the country's president will seek the second or third party to form the government. Both have said they think new elections should be held.
Opposition parties have refused to rule with Kurti, criticising the way he has dealt with Kosovo's relations with its Western allies and his actions in Kosovo's ethnically divided north, where a Serb minority lives, writes the international news agency Reuters.
Kurti, a leftist and Albanian nationalist, came to power in 2021, when a coalition led by Vetevendosje received more than 50% of the vote and secured a majority of seven seats in parliament.
Reuters recalls in the end that Kosovo, Europe's newest state, declared independence from Serbia in 2008 with support from the United States, following a 78-day NATO bombing campaign against Serbian forces in 1999. /Periscope/
