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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Florent Bajrami and Llazar Semini

Kosovo’s new lawmakers are sworn in but Parliament fails to elect a new speaker

Kosovo New Parliament - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Kosovo’s legislature on Saturday swore in the 120 lawmakers who will sit in the newly elected Assembly, or Parliament, after procedural disputes between the political parties but failed twice to elect a new speaker, a process which may take the country into a prolonged legislative crisis

All parties who won seats in the Feb. 9 election voted unanimously in favor of taking up their mandates, opening the way to the election of the new speaker and deputy speakers.

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