The President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, has set February 9, 2025 as the date when the regular parliamentary elections will be held in Kosovo.
In the decree signed by Osmani, it is stated that the election date was set after consultations with the political parties and the Central Election Commission.
These will be the first regular parliamentary elections that will be organized in Kosovo, since the declaration of independence in 2008.
On July 31, President Osmani invited all parliamentary parties to consultations on setting the date of the elections. The head of the ruling party, Lévizja Vetëvendosje, Albin Kurti, did not participate in this meeting.
After that meeting, Osmani said that the parties had different proposals for the date of the elections, but no one insisted on one. Some of the dates mentioned were January 26 or February 2, 9 and 16.
For a long time, the opposition parties had demanded early elections, but earlier this year they failed to reach an agreement on how to go about the elections.
At the end of May, an initiative by the largest opposition entity, the Democratic Party of Kosovo, to go to the elections through the dissolution of the Assembly failed.
This option was opposed by the other two opposition parties, the Democratic League of Kosovo and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, which demanded that the Government led by Albin Kurti resign or be dismissed. But these two demands were opposed by Kurti's Self-determination Movement.
*This article was published by REL and reposted by Tiranapost.al
