The scheduling of Kosovo’s early parliamentary elections on December 28 has safeguarded the public sector from potential salary delays in January and February 2026. According to the Law on Public Finance Management, if elections are held in the last four months of the fiscal year, budget allocations can be extended to cover the first two months of the following year.
This is established in Article 24 of the Law on Budget Allocations in the Absence of a Budget Law:
“If a Budget Law for a given fiscal year is not adopted by the Assembly and properly promulgated before the start of the fiscal year, the previous year’s budget law shall be applied.
a) If general elections are held less than four (4) months before the start of the fiscal year: (i) it is effectively extended to cover the first two (2) months of the fiscal year; and (ii) it provides a budget allocation for each budgetary organization equal to 16.67% of the allocation guaranteed to that organization under the previous budget law.”
However, this budget extension does not cover employees of RTK, Kosovo’s public broadcaster, as the annual report for the station was not approved by the Assembly.
The early elections in Kosovo are scheduled for December 28, 2025.
