The choice of president, Kurt today meets Obadiah

Kosovo must have new president by March 4th, according to the laws, as current President Vjosa Osmani is out of mandate in early April.

Osman is also seeking a second five-year term, but it does not seem to have the support needed for re-election.

So far, no other possible candidate for president has been submitted or mentioned.

Kurti '%s', whose party has 57 seats in the Assembly, said she talked to Hamza, among other things, on the issue of electing the president, and that she will meet today with Democratic League of Kosovo Chairman Lumir Abdixhiku.

The “agreed that co-operation is necessary, since at least 2/3 of the Parliament's deputies for successful vote” are needed, Kurti said after meeting with Hamza.

He added that Hamza '%s' whose party has 22 seats, expressed its “preparedness” for parliamentary co-ordination on issues of “state and national interest”.

Eugen Cakoli from the Kosovo Democratic Institute criticised the meeting between Kurti and Hamza in the prime minister's office, saying that “is a little odd that meetings on this topic be held in his office, as if it were the process of the Government”.

The talks on the president's case should be held among the parliamentary party leaders, because this is the parliamentary process and requires political agreement between parliamentary forces”, Cakoli wrote on Facebook.

President Osmani has been criticised by opposition parties for being close to Kurti's party.

They have said that it “does not represent the unifying image”, but did not explain why.

Donika Emini, from the Balkan Policy Consultative Group in Europe, told Free Europe Radio earlier that opposition parties see them in a very unfavourable position, because despite the quorum required for the president's election, Kurt's party has a considerable majority.

However, she added, the process will develop relatively calm, “because no one wants new elections, neither Vetevendosje nor opposition parties”.

Osman was elected president for the first time in 2021, enjoying the support of Kurt's Vetevendosje, but so far, neither Kurti nor his party officials have expressed public support for a second term for it.

It has insisted on a second mandate to continue good “ ” that it said it started.

To compete for president of the country, a candidate must provide at least 30 deputies' signatures, while two-thirds of the vote is needed in the 120-seat Assembly to win that position.

The quorum is reached by 80 deputies. If in the first two rounds of voting a candidate does not secure 80 votes, then the third vote will suffice to have 61 Sosh.

Although the role of the president of Kosovo is ceremonial, his timely absence costs the state.

Failure to elect the country's president before 4 March would put the country into a new crisis, prompting early parliamentary elections for the second time within months.

Kosovo faced a political and institutional crisis throughout 2025, which cost it with lack of international funds and delays in passing the budget for the new fiscal year.