Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has called for an agreement to be reached on the election of Kosovo’s president, following a Constitutional Court ruling that set a new deadline for the process.
Kurti said the court’s decision has placed the country in an urgent situation requiring immediate action. The Constitutional Court has determined that the 60-day period for electing a new president began on August 8 and ends on October 6, 2026.
“The Constitutional Court’s judgment, which established a new constitutional rule concerning the running of the deadline for electing the president, puts us in an urgent situation that requires action,” Kurti said.
He also referred to a previous agreement with the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), saying that it had been abandoned by six LDK lawmakers despite having the support of the party leadership.
According to Kurti, six full days remain, in addition to Wednesday, to elect a new president.
“We have, besides today, six full days ahead of us to give the country a new president or president,” he said.
Kurti said that, alongside reaching a new political agreement, electing a president remains possible and could prevent another parliamentary election. Under the Constitutional Court’s ruling, failure to elect a president by October 6 would trigger the process leading to the dissolution of the Assembly and new elections.
He called on political parties to sit down and discuss a solution.
“Let us sit down together, because new elections once again would not be elections for president. Besides leaving us without an Assembly, this time they would again leave us with uncertainty over the exercise of the president’s duties, while the government would remain in office,” Kurti said.
Kurti added that Kosovo cannot afford to lose time to what he described as unnecessary political crises.
“Each electoral process is a new context that requires reflection, and this time it would not produce a different result. But we have new circumstances that require greater responsibility toward the state,” he said.
The Constitutional Court’s ruling also found that the election of Kurti’s government on September 13 did not violate the Constitution, while determining that the Assembly had been constituted after the 30-day constitutional deadline.
