A researcher at the Kosovo Democratic Institute (KDI), Eugen Cakolli, provided details regarding the constitutional deadlines for electing the country’s president, KosovaPress reports.
He stated that the inability to elect the head of state by March 5 automatically sends the country toward early elections.
According to him, political parties are more focused on competing over who will be blamed for the failure to elect a president than on finding a solution that provides the country with stability.
“Missing the constitutional deadline for electing the President – which is March 5, not March 4 – puts the country in a situation of failing to fulfill a constitutional obligation. Such a situation can practically only be addressed through new early elections. Because if the deadlines depend on the willingness to initiate procedures, then they lose all meaning. By analogy, it would be the same as if the deadline for constituting the Assembly did not start without convening the constitutive session. Above all, constitutional norms cannot be read in isolation or purely literally, because no constitution can foresee every political situation. Even less so, any eventual failure of this process will not be due to constitutional ambiguity, but to political will—or rather, the lack of it to find a solution,” he wrote on social media Facebook.
A day earlier, former Deputy Minister of Justice from the Vetëvendosje Movement, Blerim Sallahu, stated that the country will not go to elections if a president is not elected by March 4, 2026, due to deputies’ nonparticipation in the plenary session and in voting during the three constitutionally designated rounds.
He wrote that once the procedure to elect the President begins, the election process should be taken to the Constitutional Court with a request for a temporary measure, in order to suspend the deadline for electing the country’s president. /KosovaPress/
