Kosovo’s Parliament will reconvene once more in a renewed effort to formally constitute itself following previous unsuccessful attempts.
In an official statement issued today, the Assembly of Kosovo confirmed that the constitutive session will continue tomorrow, May 3, at 10:00 AM.
This follows a tense previous session marked by disputes over a proposal to shift the method of electing the Speaker of Parliament to a secret ballot using physical paper votes. The proposal, introduced by Acting Chair Avni Dehari, was met with strong resistance from opposition parties, who called it arbitrary and in violation of the Assembly’s Rules of Procedure.
The Controversial Proposal
Avni Dehari justified the proposal by referencing the 2014 Constitutional Court ruling, specifically Paragraph 124, which allows for flexibility in the voting method—open, secret, or otherwise—depending on parliamentary procedures.
“Considering the repeated failures to elect the Speaker, and drawing from the 2014 Constitutional Court Judgment, particularly paragraph 124, where it is stated that voting can be open, secret, or in any other form as defined by the Assembly’s Rules, the most suitable option to unlock the process would be secret voting through physical ballots,” said Dehari during yesterday’s session.
Despite this argument, no consensus was reached, and the session ended without progress. Tomorrow’s meeting will be a critical test of whether Parliament can finally overcome the deadlock and move toward functional governance.
