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The mandate holder for the formation of the new Government of Kosovo, the leader of the Vetëvendosje Movement and the acting Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, has two more days of legal time to present the Government to the members of the Kosovo Assembly.
If the government is not elected on Sunday - after February elections and months of efforts to form new institutions - Kosovo could face a new institutional crisis.
In the parliamentary elections of February 9, the Vetëvendosje Movement received the most votes, but not enough to form the Government alone.
Now, it is not certain whether this party will manage to secure the votes of MPs from other parties by Sunday.
For political expert Agon Maliqi, Kurti's doors are closed and Kosovo will go to new elections. Listen to the interview with him.
Earlier, the Vetëvendosje Movement ruled out the possibility of talks with the Democratic Party of Kosovo, while leaving the door open for cooperation with the Democratic League of Kosovo.
For now - at least publicly - there is no information that a coalition agreement is on the horizon.
Earlier this week, Kurti hinted that he may not be able to form a new government and suggested that an alternative solution is to hold new elections.
However, the Constitution of Kosovo stipulates that if the proposed composition of the new Government does not obtain the necessary majority of deputies, the President of Kosovo must appoint a second prime minister-designate within ten days, who has the best chances of forming the Government.
The new prime minister-designate would again have 15 days to propose the composition of the Government and the work program to the Assembly.
Based on the decision of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo from 2020, the second candidate for prime minister can also be from the second largest party - in this case the Democratic Party of Kosovo.
The President calls new elections if the Government is not elected for a second time, and they must be held within 40 days from the date of the call.
Until then, the incumbent Government would carry out its duties.
The Vetëvendosje movement won 48 of the 120 seats in the Kosovo Assembly in the February elections, followed by the Democratic Party of Kosovo with 24 seats, the Democratic League of Kosovo with 20 seats, and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo - Nisma coalition with 8 seats.
The Serb community has ten guaranteed seats in the Kosovo Assembly - nine of which were won by the Serb List, while one seat was won by Nenad Rašić from the Party for Freedom, Justice and Survival.
Ten other parliamentary seats are reserved for other minority communities, recognized by the Constitution of Kosovo: Bosniaks, Turks, Gorani, Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians.
To elect a new government, the person in charge must secure at least 61 votes.
On October 20, Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani stated that there is still time to reach an agreement on the election of the Government, but criticized the Serbian List for "creating obstacles."
The Serbian List appealed to the Constitutional Court of Kosovo to challenge the election of Rašić as Deputy Speaker of the Assembly and is awaiting a response.
If the Constitutional Court of Kosovo accepts the appeal of the Serbian List as well-founded, in practice this would mean that the Assembly of Kosovo has not been constituted.
This would make it impossible to take any steps towards the formation of the new Government and institutions.
Previously, the Constitutional Court ruled in favor of the Serbian List that the Assembly was not constituted without the election of a deputy speaker from the Serbian community.
Rašić was then elected, because none of the nine candidates from the Serbian List managed to secure the necessary votes.
According to the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, a candidate for deputy speaker of the Assembly from the Serb community is proposed by the majority of deputies from that community - something that the Serb List also refers to in its complaint.
The Kosovo Assembly was constituted on October 10, eight months after the elections.
The political and institutional crisis initially arose due to disagreements between the largest Albanian parties over the election of the Speaker of the Assembly, and then due to the election of a deputy speaker from the Serbian community. /REL
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