Kosovo opposition parties urged incumbent Prime Minister Albin Kurti to give them a greater share in upcoming institutions – if he wants to avoid new snap elections.

Ramush Haradinaj, an MP for the Alliance, formerly the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, AAK, told the media on Wednesday that in order to solve the current impasse over the next President, Kurti has to reach a political compromise.

“The [election] result demands joint decision making,” Haradinaj said one day before the new parliament, elected in June snap polls, holds its inaugural session.

“One of main posts, Prime Minister or President, belongs to the opposition parties. The election winner should read the election result this way,” he added.

In the June 7 elections, Kurti’s Vetevendosje Movement won 53 of the 120 seats, down four from the last December 2025 election, but well ahead of the Kosovo Democratic Party, PDK, which won 22 seats. The Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK, which is Kurti’s most likely coalition partner, won 18 seats.

A repeat of the parliamentary deadlock that paralysed the country for much of 2025, when no party had enough seats to elect parliamentary officials and form a government, has likely been avoided – but only when it comes to the election of a speaker and a government, for which the winning party needs only a bare minimum of 61 votes.

Kurti will likely obtain a simple majority to form the next government by again relying on the support of MPs from various ethnic minority communities – Roma, Ashkali, Egyptian, Turk, Bosniak – plus one of the Serbs.

However, the wider crisis that led to the June 7 snap elections has not been solved; the parties still need to come to an agreement to elect a new President. Failure to do this within two months of the inauguration of the new parliament would trigger another election.

“Kurti is seeking all the main posts and decision-making institutions for himself and is aiming to humiliate the opposition by offering them only participation in the government. This is not what voters have decided, this is the logic of a regime. Leaders of totalitarian regimes are afraid of shared decision making. I think the opposition can help in forming the institutions, but there should be joint decision making,” Haradinaj said.

His comments came a day after Kurti met LDK leader Lumir Abdixhiku in an attempt to find an agreement on forming new institutions. The meeting ended without a deal – but both sides sounded cautiously optimistic.

“We are ready to avoid the new elections at any price … Kosovo needs institutional stability, more work and not political drama,” Abdixhiku said, referring to the political deadlock that brought the country three elections in 16 months.

However, Abdixhiku sounded reluctant to take the post of parliamentary speaker for his party in return for supporting Vetevendosje’s candidate for President.

“The LDK has no appetite for [the post of] speaker, which is more of a ceremonial figure and should be proposed by the biggest party [Vetevendosje],” he said.

On the other hand, Kurti said there was still a will “to work together” with the LDK in future. “No one wants new elections but if we don’t have an agreement, if we don’t move ahead, they can unfortunately happen despite the lack of a wish [for them],” Kurti said

“We need a political agreement which respects the elections result – and is not a substitute for it,” Kurti added.