Prishtina, 12 June 2025, dtt-net.com – The two-year war for freedom and independence from Serbia ended on 12 June 1999, but 12 June 2025 finds Kosovo in an unprecedented institutional deadlock without a new parliament constituted and without a new government after February parliamentary elections, with no exit in sight from the ongoing deadlock as stubborn Albanian politicians are failing to compromise.
“With deep respect we u the sacrifice of the martyrs, invalids and veterans and all the women and men who contributed to the liberation of Kosovo…We thank each of the 19 NATO member states that intervened at that time to stop the crimes of Serbian forces in each of their languages, as the banner of this ceremony shows,” the caretaker Prime Minister Albin Kurti said in an event organized on the occasion.
Serb army members, police and paramilitaries started leaving Kosovo territory after the Kumanovo deal of 9 June 1999 with NATO, which followed after 78-day of airstrikes of NATO against Serbian army positions in Kosovo and Serbia to halt the war between Serbia forces and Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and stop the war crimes on Kosovo Albanian civilians and prevent ethnic cleansing by the regime of the then and late President of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic.
Nine years later, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia which is recognized by some 110 worldwide countries, including 22 of 27 EU member countries.
In 2022 Kosovo applied for EU membership but is not having a reply on its application as five countries (Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain) refuse to recognize its statehood.
It has also applied for membership in the Council of Europe in 2023, but membership was blocked because of member countries conditioning it last year with formation an autonomous body for Kosovan Serb minority.
But 26 years since liberation, Kosovo politicians have embarked the country in an unseen institutional deadlock.
On June 11, for 30th time they failed to elect a new speaker of Parliament as the winner of the February 9, Kurti’s Vetevendosje (LVV) party is failing to get sufficient support for its nominee in the 120-seat legislative body.
Albulena Haxhiu if failing to secure 61 votes.
Opponent parties have suggested to Kurti to propose other candidates for the post which would have their support, but he refuses to withdraw her.
Without electing the speaker, the parties cannot proceed with election of government, as the Constitution has no deadline for attempts to constitute the Parliament.
The LVV is now calling for early parliamentary elections together with regular municipal elections in October, but opposition parties refused the call.
The Democratic League (LDK) had offered Kurti an all-inclusive transitional government for 12-months and then early elections, but Kurti refused the offer.
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