Radojkovic: No one shows great willingness to form a new Kosovo government

Historian Stefan Radojkovic considers it a realistic scenario for the current Kosovo government to continue operating in a technical mandate, as both the opposition parties and the ruling Self-Determination Movement are aware that any future government would be based on a "slim majority."

"None of the political factions among Kosovo Albanians achieved the results they had hoped for. Kurti did win, receiving the most votes, but not enough to form a government independently. On the other hand, the Albanian opposition indeed won more votes, but still not enough to have anything more than a slim majority if they were to constitute and form their cabinet in the provisional institutions," Radojkovic told Kosovo Online.

He notes that all parties are waiting for the Central Election Commission report on the exact number of mandates won before "forming a strategy moving forward."

"But since not only the local elections in municipalities are approaching in the fall, but also the election of the president of the provisional Pristina administration, they all know that a slim majority, somewhere around 50 percent plus one, two, or three MPs, is not enough to decisively elect the president of these institutions next year. In that sense, it seems as if everyone is satisfied with the current balance of power, that the opposition is in no hurry to see how things unfold, and that Kurti has no great desire to speed up the process, certainly not until the CEC releases concrete results," Radojkovic said.

He explains that a technical government could be achieved through procedural obstructions.

"According to their Constitution, there are ways to obstruct the work and election of a new cabinet, and Kurti could specifically use these methods since he still won the most votes and holds the highest percentages, meaning that the Speaker of the Assembly would have to come from the ranks of Self-Determination. By delaying the election of such a person, he could drag out the process indefinitely," Radojkovic emphasized.