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In a last minute save, Kosovo MPs avoided another snap parliamentary election by voting for a former minister from Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, for President.
New election likely as political parties fail to agree on electing a president and protesters keep up pressure for adoption of law curbing powers of Kosovo Specialist Chambers, following its conviction of wartime guerrilla leaders.
While protests demanding changes in the law regulating Kosovo’s Hague-based war crimes court continue in Prishtina, Kosovo is on the verge of another unprecedented political crisis as the deadline to elect Kosovo’s President ends after midnight on October 6.
After violent clashes on Monday night, protesters started to reassemble in Prishtina to demand legal changes to curb the powers of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers war crimes court following convictions of guerrilla leaders.
The Peja Basic Prosecution has charged nine people suspected of operating an organised drug network between Kosovo and Albania that cultivated thousands of cannabis plants in the Peja region in 2024.
