The prime ministerial candidate, Glauk Konjufca, has stated that it would be arrogance to take the country to new elections.
Konjufca said that 2025 will be remembered for the efforts to establish the country’s institutions, reports KosovaPress.
“With this animosity in our political spectrum, it will be difficult to even reach a consensus for the election of the president in March. Without a new government, our country is only guaranteed one thing—the deepening of the current crisis. Through the formation of this government today, we aim for some basic goals for our state; first, we aim to save Kosovo from potential two-round elections. It would be arrogance to take our country directly to elections. We had elections in February, then two rounds in October and November. Now, if we go to new elections in December, who guarantees that we won’t face them again in March? For our citizens, it is exhausting; for the Central Election Commission, it is an unprecedented challenge; and for the public budget, it means 8 million euros wasted without reason,” he said.
Konjufca said that LVV has taken three steps to avoid early parliamentary elections. He stressed that if he is not voted in as prime minister today, the country will inevitably go to new elections. He also outlined urgent matters he would address if the government is formed.
“Some urgent issues our government will address include the state budget for 2026, approval of the EU growth plan, several important international financial agreements including those with the World Bank, execution of RTK employees’ salaries, and approval of budgets for the municipalities of Prishtina, Gjilan, and Zubin Potok. I ask you for something we ourselves did in 2020; everyone remembers how LVV voted for the Hoti government’s budget on December 29, 2020. We did not see that budget as belonging to Avdullah Hoti personally, but to the state of Kosovo. We could have refused to vote for it, but we would have been responsible for a crisis that directly threatened all public sector salaries,” he said.
“Next year will be, on one hand, a year of capital investments with over 1 billion euros, support for production in the private sector with financing up to 1 billion euros, urgent start of the Prishtina-Durrës railway, creation of 5 dams for water accumulation, and new energy projects with our existing resources. It will also be a year of raising the minimum wage to 500 euros, protecting workers’ rights… 2026 will be a year of transformation for public healthcare across all regions of Kosovo with new hospitals to be built… it will be the year we begin work on heating systems in regions that have been waiting for years,” said Konjufca.
