Acting Prime Minister and leader of the Vetëvendosje Movement, Albin Kurti, told KosovaPress that as soon as the Kosovo Assembly is constituted, they will elect the new government.
When asked about the possibility of forming a temporary government, a proposal made by his coalition partner, the leader of the Alternative party, Mimoza Kusari-Lila, Kurti expressed confidence in the formation of the new government.
Kosovo has not yet established new institutions more than eight months after the parliamentary elections on February 9.
Vetëvendosje emerged as the leading party in the elections, but together with its partners and seven deputies from non-majority communities, they demonstrated in several attempts to elect the Assembly Speaker that they have only 57 deputies. This was also confirmed recently by MP Mimoza Kusari-Lila of the LVV Parliamentary Group.
However, Kurti said that he continues to serve as acting prime minister, even though his full four-year term has ended.
He added that the Kurti I government was “less than necessary,” alluding to his removal from the executive in 2020, while saying that the Kurti II government continues “more than necessary.”
He emphasized that the Kurti III government will be, as he said, “just right.”
“We are the acting government; as soon as the Assembly begins its work, we will elect the new government. I am in the seventh month of the fifth year of the full four-year term, so it is more than necessary. The first time it was less than necessary, and the third time it will be just right,” he said.
Kosovo Assembly deputies are awaiting the publication of the full ruling of the Constitutional Court regarding the constitutive session.
On September 30, the Constitutional Court issued a statement saying that the constitutive session of the Kosovo Assembly, which began on April 15, has not concluded because the deputy speaker from the Serbian community has not been elected.
The Constitutional Court’s decision followed a complaint from the Serbian List, the largest Serbian party in Kosovo, regarding the separate voting of candidates for deputy speakers from non-majority communities.
The Constitutional Court ordered the deputies to constitute the ninth legislature within 12 days of the publication of the full ruling, but did not specify the legal consequences if the legislative body is not completed. /KosovaPress/
