Krasniqi: Those aiming to consolidate their power would benefit from the failure to elect a president

University professor Kol Krasniqi told Kosovo Online that the failure to elect a president would represent an undermining of the constitutional order and that such a situation would benefit actors who aim to consolidate their power.

“From a legal and constitutional perspective, the failure to elect the President of the Republic of Kosovo is not a neutral situation, but one that produces institutional uncertainty and undermines the functionality of the constitutional order,” he said.

The professor emphasized that the failure to elect a president would benefit political actors who seek to create crisis and polarization, turning a constitutional blockade into electoral capital, as well as those who aim to concentrate power in order to avoid an independent president with, as he stated, a genuine balancing role under the Constitution of Kosovo.

In addition to them, Krasniqi said that such a situation would also be favorable for those who “calculate with early elections, hoping to benefit from the dissolution of the Assembly, and for actors who prefer the institutional weakening of Kosovo at the international level, particularly in the context of the dialogue with Serbia and Kosovo’s integration process into the European Union and NATO.”

“In reality, the failure to elect a president benefits only those who profit from institutional and systemic uncertainty. In a constitutional state, the public interest and the legal order must take precedence over party interests and short-term political calculations. For all citizens of Kosovo, their highest interest should be the stability and functionality of the state – not blockage,” Professor Krasniqi assessed.