He requested additional time, but failed to use it to sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition.
The session on the constitution of the Assembly was not convened even after 48 hours had passed since the previous session.
The chairman of Vetëvendosje and acting Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, did not explain why the Assembly was left waiting. Instead of announcing a date, he repeated his call for a political agreement.
Albin Kurti, Acting Prime Minister of Kosovo, said:
“We are in communication, and we will try every day to reach a political agreement in order to avoid unnecessary and unjustified elections, because they would only be repeated. So, once again, I call on the leaders of the other parties to discuss and reach an agreement, because the citizens of the Republic of Kosovo do not want elections; they want a solution. And the solution is a political agreement.”
Vetëvendosje is placing full responsibility for holding the constitutive session on the chair of the session, Avni Dehari.
Albulena Haxhiu, Acting President of Kosovo, said:
“No refusals to hold meetings, no demands that are inconsistent with the will of the people, and no demands that are inconsistent with the political strength of the political parties. Let us sit down and discuss an agreement that does not lead to a deadlock.”
Although the constitutive session is regulated by the Constitution and the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, and has also been clarified through a ruling of the Constitutional Court, Acting Foreign Minister Glauk Konjufca said that the delays do not constitute a violation.
Glauk Konjufca, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, said:
“We do not believe that the Constitution has been violated. Because of these processes that have been ongoing since February 2025, the Constitution has increasingly been interpreted and established through practice.”
However, opposition lawmakers see the situation differently.
Mërgim Lushtaku, an MP from the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), said:
“It is truly regrettable to see this arrogance from the government or the majority. Certainly, what has happened is not good. It has become the new norm, the new normality—the violation of the Constitution.”
Avni Dehari, the chair of the constitutive session and an MP from the Vetëvendosje Movement, did not indicate in a post during the day whether he would call for the continuation of the session. Instead, he wrote that without a political agreement, the country would head toward new elections, while accusing MPs from other parties of not wanting an agreement but rather incidents.
“There are quite a few opposition MPs who do not want any political agreement on the constitution of the institutions and who want physical incidents to occur during the constitutive session,” Dehari wrote.
Saturday’s session was ended prematurely following a similar request from Kurti for additional time. The move prompted reactions from MPs of other parties and ended with Alliance MP Time Kadrijaj throwing eggs at Kurti.
