{"id":9591,"date":"2021-04-02T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T14:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=9591"},"modified":"2021-04-02T14:45:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T14:45:42","slug":"pm-kurti-we-need-to-choose-the-president-or-else-were-heading-to-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/pm-kurti-we-need-to-choose-the-president-or-else-were-heading-to-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Kurti: We need to choose the president, or else we\u2019re heading to elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, declared that the government will address all the problems encountered by citizens, but before that, the country will have to conclude the process of selecting the new president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">On the opposite, Kurti said during the plenary session, the country risks heading towards elections again. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cYou will have those solutions from our governance program and our work plant but first we need to appoint the present, it is imperative that we conclude the third step in constituting institutions in order to have the four-year term, or else, we\u2019re going to elections\u201d, said Kurti. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">During Friday\u2019s plenary session, MPs raised the matter over the handling of the pandemic, but Kurti responded to them by recalling that last year, during his first government, there were no infections in Kosovo, praising his strategy at the time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cLast May there were no cases. Why? Because our approach was to go into lockdown and then towards a gradual reopening so that we can trace the cases and we were successful. However when the government changed, so did the approach as well as the strategy, and then the consequences arrive\u201d, said Kurti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2021\/04\/01\/democratic-party-of-kosovo-does-not-support-vjosa-osmani-for-president-says-acting-chair-of-dpk\/\">Democratic Party of Kosovo does not support Vjosa Osmani for president, says acting chair of DPK<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2021\/03\/31\/haradinaj-self-determination-didnt-ask-to-collaborate-with-us-on-the-president\/\">Haradinaj: Self-Determination didn\u2019t ask to collaborate with us on the president<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2021\/04\/01\/12-fatalities-and-975-new-cases-from-covid-19-in-kosovo\/\">12 fatalities and 975 new cases from COVID-19, in Kosovo<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, declared that the government will address all the problems encountered by citizens, but before that, the country will have to conclude the process of selecting the new president. On the opposite, Kurti said during the plenary session, the country risks heading towards elections again. \u201cYou will have those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PM Kurti: We need to choose the president, or else we\u2019re heading to elections - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/pm-kurti-we-need-to-choose-the-president-or-else-were-heading-to-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM Kurti: We need to choose the president, or else we\u2019re heading to elections - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, declared that the government will address all the problems encountered by citizens, but before that, the country will have to conclude the process of selecting the new president. 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