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Kosovo MPs vote to dissolve parliament, pave way for snap election | |
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Kosovo MPs voted on Thursday to dissolve parliament and trigger an early election, in a move that will add new delays to the deadlocked dialogue with Serbia. | |
The vote comes after the outgoing PM, Ramush Haradinaj, a former commander of ethnic Albanian rebels who battled Serbia in the late 1990s, stepped down in July. He had been summoned to a special court in The Hague, which is investigating crimes from that era, AFP said. | |
After 89 lawmakers in the 120-member assembly voted in favor of the motion, Haradinaj hailed it and said that the dialogue with Serbia “is one of the important topics.” | After 89 lawmakers in the 120-member assembly voted in favor of the motion, Haradinaj hailed it and said that the dialogue with Serbia “is one of the important topics.” |
After the last parliamentary election held in Serbia’s breakaway territory in 2017, it took several months to form a government in Pristina. Serbia, China, and Russia do not recognize Kosovo, effectively shutting it out of the UN. |
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