The Kosovo Assembly will hold a crucial session today at 10:00 with a single item on the agenda: the election of the new government.
The acting Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, today has the last day according to the mandate he received from Vjosa Osmani to present his governing cabinet and the governing program in the role of the mandate holder for the formation of the new government.
Deputies will gather in an extraordinary plenary session with the only agenda being the election of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo, starting at 10:00, but 61 votes are needed to form the new executive.
In the event of failure to form a government, Albin Kurti will become the first prime minister to fail to form a new government, as in all other processes for forming a government, prime ministers have been elected by a majority vote the first time, KosovaPress reports.
President Osmani has emphasized that if the new Government does not pass today, then within ten days she will invite the parties to see if any of them can secure the necessary 61 votes.
If the government is not formed even after the second attempt, Osmani must, according to the Constitution, announce extraordinary elections within 40 days.
In all other processes for forming a government, the mandate holders were elected by a majority vote the first time: Bajram Rexhepi in 2002, Ramush Haradinaj 2004, Bajram Kosumi 2005, Agim Çeku 2006, Hashim Thaçi 2008, 2010, 2014, Isa Mustafa 2014, Ramush Haradinaj 2017, Avdullah Hoti 2020 and Albin Kurti 2020, 2021.
On February 9, Vetëvendosje emerged victorious with 48 seats in the Assembly, PDK 24, LDK 20, AAK-Nisma coalition 8. The Serb community has 10 guaranteed seats, 9 of which were won by the Serbian List and one by Nenad Rašić's Party for Freedom, Justice and Survival. Another 10 parliamentary seats are reserved for non-Serb communities.
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