Kosovo to hold early vote as top court annuls election of new government
Kosovo will now have to hold early parliamentary votes after the country’s highest court annulled the election of the government of Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti.
The Constitutional Court of Kosovo ruled on Monday that the coalition government led by Hoti, elected on June 3, was unconstitutional.
According to the ruling, the government did not receive the mandatory 61 votes by Kosovar lawmakers.
It called on the president to set a date for fresh elections within 40 days.
The parliamentary vote in June followed the dismissal of the government of former prime minister Abin Kurti in a no-confidence vote in March, less than two months after it took office.
Kurti’s government was dismissed over a dispute on a state of emergency to combat the coronavirus pandemic that triggered a political crisis in the Balkan country.
After the former government’s dismissal, Kurti filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court demanding its ruling on whether the Hoti government was elected legally.
He argued that the decisive vote of lawmaker Etem Arifi, from an ethnic minority party, had been illegal because he had already been convicted of fraud.
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