Parliamentary election in Kosovo 2019
The parliamentary elections in Kosovo 2019 ( Albanian Zgjedhjet e Përgjithshme në Kosovë 2019 , Serbian Косовски парламентарни избори 2019 Parlamentarni Izbori na Kosovu 2019 ) on October 6 was the fourth election of the parliament of the Republic of Kosovo since independence . The election took place because, in response to the resignation of Prime Minister Ramush Haradinajs on July 19, 2019, Parliament voted in a vote on August 22 by 89 out of 120 votes for its own dissolution. This was the VI. Parliament's legislative period, which lasted since 2017, ended prematurely.
After several months of negotiations, the new government coalition emerged from the left-wing nationalist Lëvizja Vetëvendosje! (VV) and the conservative Lidhja Demokratie e Kosovës (LDK) took office on February 3, 2020.
Participating parties
In contrast to the previous election, the LDK and PDK did not run again in alliances with other parties, but rather alone.
Result
The two largest parties from the former opposition, VV and LDK, won the most votes. Due to complaints, it was decided in mid-November that around 90% of the votes had to be recounted.
Distribution of seats
total: 120 seats
Governments
First government formation
The coalition talks between the chairman of Lëvizja Vetëvendosje, Albin Kurti , and Isa Mustafa from the LDK dragged on for around four months. At the beginning of February 2020, VV and LDK agreed on a government coalition. The new Kurti government was elected on February 3, 2020 (for a list of ministers see Kosovar government ).
The new government decided to significantly reduce the disproportionately high number of ministries. The Kurti government was the first government without the participation of the PDK.
Government crisis and voting out
At first, decisions by the new government were largely perceived positively, such as the reduction in the salaries of all ministers and members of parliament, which had been significantly increased by the previous government of Ramush Haradinaj .
Nevertheless, the reign was marked by differences of opinion between the President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi and the newly elected Prime Minister Albin Kurti , who repeatedly criticized the fact that Hashim Thaçi as President did not have the authority to negotiate Kosovo, but primarily performed a representative role . Furthermore, there was always friction between Kurti and the special envoy of the USA Richard Grenell . After the incumbent Interior Minister Agim Veliu from the LDK publicly declared a state of emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic , Prime Minister Kurti dismissed him because the declaration of the emergency had caused panic among the population. The LDK saw this as a breach of the coalition, because this decision was made without consultation, and subsequently submitted a vote of no confidence .
On March 25, 2020, 82 MPs voted for the no-confidence vote, 32 against and one MP abstained. The entire opposition and a large part of the LDK voted in favor. Among the opponents of the vote of no confidence was, in addition to Vetëvendosje , the Speaker of Parliament and top candidate of the LDK Vjosa Osmani . In the public perception, the USA played a decisive role in the overthrow of the government. As a result, Kurti temporarily retained the role of Prime Minister.
Constitutional dispute
After the vote of no confidence in the VV-LDK government, the Vetëvendosje campaigned for new elections. Critics accused that new elections during the corona pandemic could only be implemented with great effort. The LDK, on the other hand, reached an agreement with the AAK and Nisma parties and representatives of minorities to form a coalition, which was supported by the AKR and the Serbian list and thus found a narrow parliamentary majority.
However, according to a ruling by the Constitutional Court in 2014, only the party with the strongest vote has the right to propose a candidate for the election of Prime Minister. Nevertheless, the President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi handed over the government mandate to the LDK, which had announced an election on May 2, 2020. Critics accused Thaçi of double standards because after the parliamentary elections in Kosovo in 2014 he prevented the second strongest party from forming a government, blocked parliament for almost six months and only started the 2014 constitutional judgment. On May 1, 2020, the Constitutional Court again prevented the election with a decree and granted a period of one month to determine whether Thaçi's decree was a legal act. On June 1, 2020, the Constitutional Court confirmed that Thaçi's decree was compatible with the constitution and thus declared its own judgment from 2014 null and void.
Second government election
Another government election took place on June 3, 2020. The LDK proposed the candidate Avdullah Hoti at the request of party president Isa Mustafa . This was elected very tightly with 61 votes in favor, 24 against and one abstention. It was noticeable that the election had been boycotted by many MPs and by the Speaker of Parliament, Vjosa Osmani , and that none of the parties voted in favor of Hoti. The Nisma MPs Haxhi Shala originally announced not to vote for Hoti, but his mind after a visit of changed AAK President Ramush Haradinaj and the President Hashim Thaci on the day before the election. This visit was confirmed by Haradinaj. Here the suspicion came about Shala was forced to vote for Hoti. The election also met with great criticism because Vjosa Osmani originally ran as the top candidate for the LDK and the latter had refused to work with the AAK and Nisma in an election promise . According to opinion polls, Osmani was the most popular politician in Kosovo at the time. The accusation is in the room that, although they collected a lot of votes for the LDK, they were not taken into account later in any decisions. In addition, the new government is considered fragile and incapable of acting due to the lack of a majority in parliament.
Trivia
- The Kurti government had the shortest term of office at just under two months
- The Hoti government set up a novelty because none of the party presidents of the three governing parties was involved in the government either as minister or prime minister.
- The Hoti government was the first government with a Serbian vice prime minister. Hoti himself announced in 2017 that he would never work with the Serbian list because, in his view, they do not have the country's welfare in mind.
- Hoti is the Prime Minister who received the lowest number of votes in a government election in Kosovo with 61 votes
Web links
Individual evidence
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