After the constitution of the Assembly and the vote on the Government, the next step is the election of the new president, a process that should be completed by March 5 at the latest. The opposition bloc is seeking a political agreement, while Prime Minister Albin Kurti has expressed his willingness to start meetings as early as tomorrow. So far, no party has proposed a new name nor has it expressed support for a second term for Vjosa Osmani.
President Vjosa Osmani has canceled her participation in the Munich Security Conference, citing "institutional commitments and priorities related to developments within the country."
Whether these priorities are also related to Osmani's commitment to securing another term as president has not been made clear by her office.
The parties part of the opposition bloc, PDK, LDK and AAK, have not mentioned any names as possible candidates, nor have they expressed public support for Osmani, but have constantly emphasized that they want a political agreement in advance.
Even Albin Kurti, the re-elected Prime Minister, leader of the party which has 57 MPs, has not given any sign that he supports Osmani, not even in his first statement at the head of the Kurti 3 Government.
"After the constitution of the Assembly and the government last night, we are in the third step, voting on the budget and international agreements. As soon as these are completed, I am ready to begin contacts with other political entities on the issue of the President from tomorrow," Kurti said.
As is usually the case, this time too, the public discussion about the post of president does not go without mentioning the possibility that someone from the Jashari family will take the position of head of state.
"A relative of the Jashari family is writing to me, Kurti's pro-KLA language indicates that the presidential candidate will be one of the Jashari family," said the author of the Debat Plus show, Ermal Panduri.
The television station asked Bekim Jashari about this issue, but he did not respond during the day.
Former Kosovo ambassador to Albania, Sylë Ukshini, assesses that based on publicly expressed positions, there is currently no willingness in any party to support Vjosa Osmani for another term.
"The very fact that Kurti had announced that he would sit down with the political parties to find some kind of agreement for the president, I think is positive. I think that Kurti also considers that it is not beneficial for Kosovo to go to elections, because we had this problem last year and it would not be beneficial. On the other hand, we must get out of our heads that if Osmani is not elected, we go to elections, there is no reason, because it is the opposition political parties that can make an agreement with Kurti, who, for example, I am assuming is a figure from the ranks of VV from the academic world who could be acceptable to the opposition and continue," said Ukshini.
The new president must be elected by March 5th at the latest; if this does not happen, the country will automatically go to early parliamentary elections.
According to the Constitution of Kosovo, the election of the President is carried out with two-thirds (2/3) of the votes of all members of the Assembly.
If no candidate receives a two-thirds majority in the first two ballots, a third ballot is organized between the two candidates with the highest number of votes and the candidate who receives the majority of votes of all deputies is elected President.TV Dukagjini/
