Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo

The Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo ( Albanian  Kuvendi i Republikës së Kosovës , Serbian Скупштина Републике Косово Skupština Republike Kosovo ) is the legislature of Kosovo . It has 120 members who are elected by the people every four years. The seat of parliament is in the capital Pristina .

Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo

logo	Exterior view
Basic data
Seat:	Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo, Pristina
Legislative period :	four years
First session:	November 17, 2001
MPs:	120 (including 10 seats reserved for the Serbian and 10 more seats for other minorities)
Current legislative period
Last choice:	February 14, 2021
Next choice:	2025
Chair:	President of the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo Glauk Konjufca ( VV ) Vice-Presidents Saranda Bogujevci ( VV ), Bedri Hamza ( PDK ), Kujtim Shala ( LDK ), Slavko Simić ( SL ), Bekim Arifi ( XY )

Distribution of seats in parliament since the 2021 election

      

A total of 120 seats

• LDK : 15
• AAK : 8
• VV : 58
• SL : 10
• PDK : 19
• Otherwise: 10

Powers and composition

Parliament's powers are set out in the Kosovo Constitution , which entered into force on June 15, 2008. The Assembly is the state legislative body. It has 120 seats, of which the Serbian ethnic group is guaranteed at least ten seats. The other minorities in Kosovo - Roma , Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians (four together), Bosniaks (three), Turks (two) and Gorans (one) - have a total of ten additional seats reserved.

Parliament elects the President and also appoints the Prime Minister . Constitutional amendments can only be made with a two-thirds majority of all votes, including two-thirds of the votes of the minority representatives. The executive committee consists of a president and two deputies. The latter must belong to a minority.

The minimum voting age is 18 years. Glauk Konjufca ( VV ) has been President of Parliament since March 22, 2021 .

Previous parliamentary elections

Note: In the table below, no distinction is made between parliamentary elections before and after the 2008 declaration of independence.

Year (s)	winner	Percentage of votes	Achievements mandates
2001	LDK	45.65%	47 of 100
2004	LDK	45.42%	47 of 100
2007	PDK	34.3%	37 of 100
2010/2011	PDK	32.11%	34 of 120
2014	PDK- PD-LB-PSHDK-PK	30.38%	37 of 120
2017	PDK , AAK and NISMA	33.74%	39 of 120
2019	VV	26.27%	29 of 120
2021	VV + GUXO	50.28%	58 of 120

Web links

• Official website of the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo (Albanian, Serbian, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.kqz-ks.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/1.Statistikat-e-pergjithshme-1.pdf