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In Kosovo, the full counting process has not yet been completed, which must then be certified by the CECs. Kosovo now faces the formation of a government and is soon facing another challenge in electing a president.
The counting process of diaspora and conditional ballots is still ongoing, while for regular ballots the counting process has already been completed, although some municipalities and polling stations, according to the CEC, will go to the recount due to errors. technical.
From the regular votes, Vetëvendosje Movement won 47.85 percent of the votes. The Democratic Party of Kosovo, as the second party has 17.4 percent. The Democratic League with 13 percent and the AAK will be the smallest parliamentary group with 7.60%. Of the 120 seats in parliament, 20 seats are reserved for minority parties, 10 of them only for Kosovo Serbs. Vacancies that remain vacant due to the percentage of votes going to parties that did not cross the five percent threshold are allocated to parliamentary parties in a proportional system, depending on the percentage won.
The process of counting diaspora votes can take several days. CEC officials say that by February 12, they had received 43,447 packages of ballots from abroad. And this counting process can take up to ten days. The number of votes from the diaspora may be higher, as it is believed that there may be more than one ballot paper within a package.
Continuation of the process
How will the process go now after the elections are over. The vote counting process must first be completed. The Central Election Commission then has to certify them, following the eventual grievance process that political parties or candidates may have to be reviewed by the grievance panel.
For the formation of the government of Kosovo, at least 61 votes of the deputies of the assembly are needed. But first the president of Kosovo must mandate the winner of the elections to form the government. The first prime minister has two weeks to secure at least 61 votes in parliament. If the first prime minister fails to form the government within 15 days, then the president decrees another prime minister, who has a legal deadline of only ten days to form the new government. If even the second prime minister fails to secure a parliamentary majority, then the country automatically goes to the polls.
Kurti against coalitions with other parties
Vetëvendosje leader Albin Kurti has stated that he does not want a coalition with any party. He says that he has formed a pre-election coalition with the list of Vjosa Osmani. The latter competed in the list of Vetëvendosje, but aims for the post of president.
After the certification of the election results, the acting president, Vjosa Osmani, can decree Albin Kurti to form the new government. It is not yet known whether the election of Kurti as Prime Minister is legal due to the fact that he was not allowed to run in the elections due to his final sentence for throwing tear gas in 2015 in the Assembly of Kosovo.
In the last decision of the Constitutional Court and in Article 29 of the Law on General Elections, it was stated that “a candidate for deputy cannot be a person who during the last three years has been convicted by a final decision” .
However, to elect the government to the Assembly from the Vetëvendosje Movement as the winning party, at least 61 votes are needed.
The Democratic Party of Kosovo PDK, which came out the second party, according to its candidate for prime minister Enver Hoxhaj, will stay in opposition, because as he says “they are very far from positions with Vetëvendosje”.
Even the candidate of the Democratic League of Kosovo for prime minister, Avdullah Hoti, said that his party “will stay in opposition”.
“On behalf of the LDK, we will be uncompromising defenders of democracy and pro-Western orientation, being a constructive opposition in the interest of the state of Kosovo,” said Avdullah Hoti.
Meanwhile, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, led by Ramush Haradinaj, who is aiming for the post of president, has openly expressed his readiness to be part of the Kurti government. “We have no red lines, neither for Vetëvendosje nor for any other political entity”, says Haradinaj.
Minorities are also part of the new government
In the 2019 elections when the Vetëvendosje movement emerged as the first party and formed the government with the LDK, there was no coalition with the Srpska list which had taken the ten seats reserved for the Serb community in the assembly. But, according to the constitution, Serb representatives must be part of the government, and in the previous government they had two ministers. One minister was from other non-Serb minorities. Minorities will also be part of the new government.
But at this stage, the formation of the government is not seen as a problem, but the election of the country’s president may be a problem. This is due to the fact that Vjosa Osmani, currently acting president, can only exercise her duties until April. Then the assembly is obliged to elect the new president. The Constitution of Kosovo clearly stipulates that the President of Kosovo must be elected with at least 61 votes in the third round if the first two fail, while the session must be attended by at least 81 deputies. The new president must be elected within 60 days from the day the election procedure begins, and if this process fails then the country automatically goes to the polls again./DW
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