{"id":84063,"date":"2026-04-22T13:50:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=84063"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:00:43","slug":"kurti-warns-if-no-agreement-is-reached-on-the-president-there-will-be-consecutive-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kurti-warns-if-no-agreement-is-reached-on-the-president-there-will-be-consecutive-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurti Warns: If No Agreement Is Reached on the President, There Will Be Consecutive Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"131\" data-end=\"465\">Prime Minister <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Albin Kurti<\/span><\/span> warned on Wednesday that <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Kosovo<\/span><\/span> will be forced to hold \u201cconsecutive\u201d parliamentary elections if political parties fail to reach agreement on electing the country\u2019s president, with less than a week remaining before the constitutional deadline expires.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"467\" data-end=\"646\">Kurti, who is also the leader of the ruling party <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">L\u00ebvizja Vet\u00ebvendosje<\/span><\/span>, told journalists that new elections would also cost the country tens of millions of euros.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"648\" data-end=\"1009\">\u201cIf we go to new elections, we will have no solution, since we would again have to go to new elections, and after those, again to new elections. 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