{"id":80658,"date":"2026-02-23T15:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=80658"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:43:46","slug":"abdixhiku-a-classic-party-agreement-or-consensus-on-a-presidential-candidate-is-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/abdixhiku-a-classic-party-agreement-or-consensus-on-a-presidential-candidate-is-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdixhiku: A classic party agreement or consensus on a presidential candidate is needed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The leader of the LDK, Lumir Abdixhiku, described his one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Albin Kurti as constructive and substantive.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdixhiku told the media that choosing the president requires either a classic political agreement between parties or a consensus on a candidate for the country\u2019s top office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIt was an inter-party meeting discussing the upcoming selection of the President of Kosovo. Not only that\u2014we talked about everything: Kosovo\u2019s foreign policy, security issues\u2026 There are fewer than nine days left to elect the president. The general agreement is that there are only two paths forward: either a political consensus among the country\u2019s actors, which must be built in the next nine days, or a classic political agreement between parties. In both cases, at least two-thirds of MPs\u2019 votes are required. We agreed to meet in the coming days to review one of these two options,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdixhiku added that the LDK will not join the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cA political agreement implies an understanding on the president\u2019s election. At this stage, I don\u2019t think there is interest, nor is there motivation in that direction. Everything remains open within a political agreement, and the consensus is natural,\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A day earlier, Prime Minister Kurti also met with PDK leader Bedri Hamza to discuss the presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the LDK, Lumir Abdixhiku, described his one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Albin Kurti as constructive and substantive. Abdixhiku told the media that choosing the president requires either a classic political agreement between parties or a consensus on a candidate for the country\u2019s top office. \u201cIt was an inter-party meeting discussing the upcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":80659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,296],"tags":[445,527,7606],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80661,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80658\/revisions\/80661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}