The meeting between acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti and LDK leader Lumir Abdixhiku ended without any concrete sign of a breakthrough, at a time when a majority to elect the new president remains out of reach. Based on what emerged after the meeting, the political crisis appears more confirmed than resolved.
Meeting after failure to secure support
Kurti and Abdixhiku met after efforts failed to secure full support for presidential candidate Bekim Sejdiu. The move came amid a climate of political blockage, where the sides still have not produced a workable formula to break the deadlock.
The meeting itself produced no public signal of compromise. That leaves the process at the same point as before: without the necessary votes and without any visible agreement among the political forces.
Kurti leaves without a statement
After the meeting ended, Kurti left the Assembly without speaking to the media. He then continued his agenda with representatives of non-Serb minorities.
The absence of a public statement from him left unanswered the main political question of the moment: whether there is still a real effort to secure a majority, or whether what is being managed is simply a failure that had already been anticipated.
Abdixhiku: We are in an impossible numerical situation
Abdixhiku, on the other hand, gave a brief statement after the meeting. He described the communication with Kurti as a routine update following the latest developments and said the sides had officially informed each other about moves within their parties.
He went on to place the political responsibility on the forces that, according to him, are pushing Kosovo toward an unclear phase. He stressed that he has tried to find a solution, but that the distancing of other parties is pushing the country toward new elections.
His most direct statement was that Kosovo is in an “impossible numerical situation” for the election of the new president, openly acknowledging that the parliamentary arithmetic does not currently support the process.
The deadlock remains, new elections move closer as a scenario
The message that emerged from the meeting is clear: for now, there are no numbers and there is no near-term solution. That keeps open the scenario of new elections, a possibility that is being mentioned more and more often as the blockage in the Assembly continues.
Politically, the situation is increasingly being seen less as a procedural episode and more as proof of the lack of consensus among the parties on a key institutional issue.
Without a new agreement among the parliamentary forces, the presidential process remains blocked and the institutions are facing a crisis that, at least for now, has no clear way out.