According to the official calendar of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo, the spring session concludes on July 31st. However, the country finds itself in a serious political deadlock: following the dissolution of the previous legislature and the decree for new elections, the Assembly remains non-functional, awaiting the constitution of the new legislature.
Despite it being a non-working day, MPs showed up again today—yet the Assembly is still not functional. For over two and a half months, the 120 MPs have failed to elect their Speaker, effectively stalling the completion of the constitutive session.
As per Article 66 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo, the Assembly is elected for a four-year mandate, which begins on the date of the constitutive session. That session officially started on April 15, 2025, but has not yet concluded.
According to Article 12, Paragraph 5 of the Assembly’s Rules of Procedure:
“The constitutive session concludes with the election of the Speaker and Deputy Speakers of the Assembly.”
The Assembly’s media office clarified how parliamentary sessions are structured annually:
- The Assembly operates in two sessions:
1.1. The Spring Session starts on the third Monday of January and ends at the end of July.
1.2. The Fall Session begins on the second Monday of September and ends in late December. - The Assembly may also convene for an extraordinary session between the two regular ones.
However, it seems MPs cannot formally go on summer recess without first completing the constitutive session. Even so, a “workaround” may already be in place—with many weekend sessions seeing fewer than 100 MPs in attendance, the stalemate appears unlikely to be broken soon.
The country now waits to see whether the Assembly will fulfill its constitutional obligation before August recess or whether Kosovo’s political impasse will stretch into the fall session.
