On Tuesday, Kosovo’s Constitutional Court ordered MPs to again revisit the vote on the post of deputy speaker from the Serb community – but gave no further guidance on how they should resolve the months-long deadlock.
Around nine months on from the last parliamentary elections, in February, Kosovo still does not have an inaugurated parliament, as MPs have failed to elect a leadership, meaning a speaker and deputies, which is an obligatory step for its constitution.
“The court has legitimized once again the fact that the parliament is not considered constituted, if the speaker and deputy speakers are not elected,” Vullnet Bugaqku, a researcher from a Pristina-based think tank, the Kosovo Democratic Institute, KDI, told BIRN.
MPs finally elected a speaker on August 26, choosing Dimal Basha, from the biggest party in the assembly, Vetevendosje. But when many then expected a smooth inauguration of parliament, fresh complications arose over the election on August 30 of a deputy speaker from among the Serb MPs, a position guaranteed them by the Constitution.