The government with the highest number of women, great support from voters, but with new members, which include several minority communities, the government which consolidated the majority precisely because of the support of the electorate – Jeta Krasniqi from the Kosovo Democratic Institute assessed the newly elected Kosovo government in a statement for KoSSev. According to her, the President of Kosovo will be elected if not in the first round of voting, then at least in the third round.
Kosovo elected a new assembly convocation and a new government yesterday. As expected, Albin Kurti is the new prime minister – for the second time in 12 months. The previous ruling parties – LDK, AAK, and PDK – voted against this.
„This government has more women than the previous one – over 30%. Also, apart from the members of LVV, for the first time, there are ‘newcomers’ who have not been in LVV before. We also have representatives of minority communities, such as the Serbian, Turkish and Egyptian communities, who also hold positions at the head of the ministries, along with a Bosniak Deputy Prime Minister,“ Krasniqi said.
It is a government that has consolidated the majority due to the great support the voters have given to LVV and Vjosa Osmani, she added.
„There are plenty of expectations from this government. We could hear some general information from the Prime Minister tonight, but in the coming days they will say more about what the government will do, as he said tonight – when it comes to employment, justice, the fight against Covid, but also dialogue with Serbia and other issues,“ Krasniqi said, while also agreeing with the assessment of other analysts and the public that the election of the president will be the main obstacle in the establishment of new Kosovo institutions.
It seems that a new political crisis is imminent in that sense, but it is important to see how the LDK will act in the coming days – she underlined.
She recalled, however, the recent assurances from the LDK that they will take on a constructive role after the new leadership is elected, and meet with Osmani in the coming days, and that they will not have special demands toward her.
„I expect that they will have the necessary quorum for the president to be voted in,“ Krasniqi emphasized, adding that if a two-thirds majority is not obtained in the first two rounds of voting, 61 votes are needed in the third round.
In her words, the opposition parties are also not ready for new elections at the moment.
Previously, Ehat Miftaraj from the Kosovo Law Center told KoSSev that according to the constitution the president must be elected first, then the government and that at least 10 MPs can appeal to the Constitutional Court if the government is elected before the president – which did happen after our conversation with Miftaraj. He did not rule out the possibility that in such a case, the Constitutional Court could decide that this government was also elected illegally, i.e. unconstitutionally.
Krasniqi revealed that she is familiar with „such interpretations.“ While remarking that she is not a lawyer, Krasniqi stressed that there is no logic in overthrowing the government which received great trust of the citizens, and to do so by returning the outgoing government from previous elections, which had been declared as illegally elected by a decision of the Constitutional Court.
Addressing the hypothetical possibility of new elections, she placed an emphasis on the impossibility of electing the president of Kosovo, rather than the decision on the order the two executive bodies will be elected.
„Yes, there are countless discussions, both before the government was elected and election results were verified, about whether the government or the president is elected first… I am not a lawyer, but from a logical point of view, if that were the case – if a president cannot be elected, in such a case, it is not logical to go to the polls with the outgoing Hoti-led government, the government from the last assembly convocation. This is simply not logical, because the Constitutional Court declared that this government was never elected. If we were to apply such logic, then you have a government that has never been elected according to the Constitutional Court – but remains in office. You had elections, you elected a new government and how can you now have a government that the citizens sent to the opposition. A large number of citizens voted for LVV and Vjosa Osmani, and the will of the voters should be respected.“
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