The procedure, deadlines and consequences, how can Kosovo go to the polls if the president's election fails?

Kosovo has concluded some of the most important institutional processes in a few days: the constitutionalisation of the Assembly, the formation of the new government, the adoption of the budget for the current year, and the ratification of several international agreements.

But another important challenge awaits the Kosovo political scene -- the election of the new president.

Constitutional deadlines have already entered the crucial phase, and any failure to elect the head of state would not only produce institutional vacuum, but could lead to extraordinary parliamentary elections.

Recognition of constitutional law warns that if the Assembly fails to secure the necessary majority, the country automatically enters a new election cycle.

Constitutional law professor Mazbul Baraliu, in a pronomination for FrontOnline, has stated that the Constitution clearly defines the term and procedural steps for the president's election. According to him, electing the president should begin about a month before the end of the current mandate. If that does not happen, the constitutional provisions that envision additional deadlines are activated, including the possibility that within 60 days the country's formation will complete the election of head of state.

The procedure takes place a month before the mandate is carried out, and if the other provision of the Constitution is not implemented, which envisions the possibility that 60 days after the formation of the assembly within days should become the president's solution in that case, the role of tasklor that the president in the case of passing the mandate by April 4th, Baraliu said.

Baraliu said that in the event the mandate ends and procedures are not carried out until 4 April, the role of the president's taskman is taken over by the head of the Assembly, while within the 60-day term the election process must be completed.

If procedure is not carried out by then, the chairman of the assembly will take it, and within 60 days the procedure must be carried out, Baraliu said.

Baraliu considers that the most favourable scenario would be for the election to be conducted within a month, specifically until March 4th. On the contrary, he suggests that a president's resignation before this date would pave the way for the exercise of office by the Parliament Speaker, thus avoiding the risk of early elections.

It would be best for the procedure to be carried out within a month, in other words until March 4th, the president's choice should be made if it doesn't get better to give the country's president a resignation before March 4th, so that the opportunity to take office in the exercise of the assembly so that we don't go to early elections, the constitutional law professor estimates.

For one of the founders of the Kosovo Constitution, Ismet Salihu, it is best for political parties to reach a preliminary agreement for the candidate for president.

He told Front Online that any delay in reaching an agreement would not be favourable for the country.

The best thing to do is to get the parties together in advance about the candidate for president, if the ear is not going to be fine. Here, according to what I'm looking at, there's little delay in the unique arrangement, the best thing is to get the parties on the candidate, Salihu told Front Online.

Salihu says the current president has worked well so far and is considered acceptable in both the European Union and the United States. According to him, she should be a presidential candidate with agreements among political subjects.

The current president for her work so far has performed well, is acceptable in the EU, but also in America, in my opinion she must be a candidate with a presidential agreement, Salihu said.

Salihu adds that unless an agreement is reached and a candidate who does not win the majority is proposed, the country will go to early elections, which, according to him, is not in the interest of Kosovo.

If they don't agree, no agreement is reached for president by the political status-opposital subjects, and if it goes to candidates who don't win the majority of the country goes to elections, going to early elections for my opinion is not in the interest of Kosovo, Salihu said./Periscopi/