After a month of recess, the deputies of the Assembly of Kosovo will gather again on Friday for the sixtieth attempt to constitute the ninth legislature.

The elected representatives of the people have only one item on the agenda: the election of the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly from among the Serbian community, KosovaPress reports.

A day before the session, parliamentary parties are undecided on how to proceed with the issue of electing a deputy speaker from the Serb community. However, monitors of the Assembly's work say that, based on the verdict, the right to propose a deputy speaker of the Assembly from the ranks of the Serb community belongs to the Serbian List - as does the majority of deputies representing the Serb community in the Assembly.

The Constitutional Court on October 8 published the full judgment following the appeal of the Serbian List regarding the constitution of the Assembly. The court stated that the Assembly has not been constituted, while giving 12 days for the deputies to complete the constitution process. The 12-day deadline began to run from the day the full judgment was published on the court’s official website – October 8.

KosovaPress has contacted all major parliamentary parties, but the Vetevendosje Movement and the Democratic Party of Kosovo have chosen to remain silent when asked if they will vote for any of the Serbian List candidates for vice president. Meanwhile, the Democratic League of Kosovo, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo and the Social Democratic Initiative say that they will make the final decision tomorrow after discussions in the parliamentary groups.

LVV has previously repeatedly stated that they do not have a vote for any of the Serbian List MPs.

On the other hand, the head of the Parliamentary Group of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Hykmete Bajrami, in a written response to KosovaPress, said that tomorrow they will gather in the Parliamentary Group to discuss their decision-making in electing the vice-president from among the Serbian community.

AAK MP, Lahi Brahimaj, also tells KosovaPress that before tomorrow's session, at the meeting of AAK MPs, they will make a decision which, according to him, will be in accordance with the decision of the Constitutional Court.

However, he states that as an AAK MP, he does not vote for any of the Serbian List MPs for deputy speaker of the Assembly. He even adds that he will not vote for Nenad Rašić, if he is re-nominated.

"We have read the decision of the Constitutional Court. Before the session, we will meet as a Parliamentary Group and consult. In accordance with the decision of the Constitutional Court, the Alliance deputies will act in accordance with the decision of the Constitutional Court... I believe that there will be no vote for any of the deputies of the Serbian List... This time too, we have no vote for Mr. Rašić. It is up to the winning party to secure the numbers for the deputy chairmen and continue," he emphasizes.

Meanwhile, the MP from the Social Democratic Initiative, Xhevahire Izmaku, declared to KosovaPress that they have not yet made a decision on how they will act in tomorrow's session.

The vote, according to her, will be in relation to the Constitutional Court's verdict.

"The voting has been consistently based on the decisions of the Constitutional Court in terms of the interpretations that have emerged. Of all the dilemmas, we will vote in relation to the decisions of the Constitutional Court. The political decision has not yet reached its epilogue and we are dealing with all the situations," she adds.

And researcher at the Kosovo Law Institute, Gëzim Shala, interpreting the Constitutional Court's ruling regarding the election of the vice-president from the Serbian community, says that it was proven that the same should come through the proposal of the majority of deputies representing the Serbian community in Kosovo, consequently the Serbian List.

He also outlines possible scenarios for how tomorrow's session on the constitution of the Assembly could proceed.

“The operative part of the Constitutional Court’s judgment emphasizes the need to act in the best interest of protecting the Constitution. In this situation, it is clear that there should also be a vice-president from the ranks of the Serbian community. The vice-president should come through the proposal of the majority of the deputies representing the Serbian community in Kosovo. This is the principle and the same should receive 61 votes. This means that the Serbian community has ten representatives in the Assembly of Kosovo – nine are from a Parliamentary Group and one is independent. It is understood that the representation should come from the majority of minorities, otherwise there is no logic for the majority to determine the name by which the minority will be represented... A proposal is made, the same has the right to be made three times. If it does not receive the majority, namely 61 votes of the deputies of the Assembly of Kosovo, it is considered that it has not been elected. If this is repeated three times, it should be moved to the next proposal. The Constitutional Court also mentions Article 58 of the Constitution of Kosovo, which has "for the purpose of affirming the rights of communities and protecting their rights...I don't want to prejudge, but we have also seen in past elections how this issue has been politicized and has taken on another dimension...In this situation, if MPs are more concerned about how they will appear in public regarding such an issue than about the constitutional order, they have the potential to create multifaceted damage," he emphasizes.

The Constitutional Court, in its judgment of October 8, found that the constitutive session of the Assembly, which began on April 15, 2025, did not conclude as a result of the failure to elect the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly from among the deputies of the Serbian community, and the Assembly was not constituted in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 66 (Election and mandate) and paragraphs 1 and 4 of Article 67 (Election of the Speaker and Deputy Speakers) of the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo.

The Constitutional Court has ordered all elected members of the Assembly, during the procedure for electing the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly from among the members of the Serbian community, to exercise their constitutional function in the best interest of Kosovo and in accordance with the Constitution and the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly.

The Assembly has so far elected as vice-presidents Albulena Haxhiu from the Vetëvendosje Movement, Vlora Çitaku from the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Kujtim Shala from the Democratic League of Kosovo, and Emilija Rexhepi from the non-Serb minorities.

Meanwhile, the Serbian List proposed Slavko Simić for vice-president, but he did not receive the necessary votes. However, this party has insisted on only this candidate.

Subsequently, the elected Speaker of the Assembly, Dimal Basha, through a draw, put eight Serbian MPs to the vote, but they did not receive the necessary votes either.

Dimal Basha then declared that the Assembly has been constituted, but the Constitutional Court has spoken its mind, emphasizing that the legislative institution is not considered constituted without a Serbian vice president being elected.

Kosovo held parliamentary elections on February 9, but new institutions have not yet been formed.

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