The Deputy Chairwoman of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Hykmete Bajrami, has announced that her party will not support the draft budget proposed by Albin Kurti’s government, stressing that Kosovo is currently in a political deadlock that will inevitably lead to new parliamentary elections.
“We will not vote for such a budget. The country will go to elections because there is no other solution. This decision will not pass, because it cannot pass in the Assembly of Kosovo,”
Bajrami declared.
She reminded that Albin Kurti did not have the required 61 votes to be elected prime minister on October 26, emphasizing that the current government lacks legitimacy to approve the national budget.
“Since we couldn’t make 61 votes, we are going to elections to achieve them. It’s easy to make numbers on paper, but not in parliament. We refused to form a government with the Serb List because such a government would be short-lived — we’ve said this from the very beginning. During the pandemic, LDK formed a government with 61 votes for the sake of the state, and you all know how short-lived that was and the electoral price we paid for it. That’s understandable,”
Bajrami said during an interview with Dukagjini.
She further stated that LDK never intended to cooperate with the Serb List, describing any such government as “unstable and short-term.”
Addressing the issue of unpaid salaries for employees of the Radio Television of Kosovo (RTK), Bajrami placed direct blame on Prime Minister Kurti:
“Our colleagues at RTK are not without pay because there’s no budget law — they are without pay because Kurti has usurped the office of the Prime Minister. The same colleagues received their salaries three months ago; this is purely political obstruction,”
she said.
The ongoing political crisis in Kosovo — marked by the failure to form a stable majority and disputes over the 2025 state budget — is increasingly pointing toward new elections as the only viable solution.
