A Conversation With Prime Minister Albin Kurti of Kosovo
Confronting current geopolitical realities; reconciling the past: What does the future hold for Kosovo and its people?
On May 28, 2020, Kosovo held a parliamentary session to vote on a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Albin Kurti.
Last month, President Hashim Thaçi nominated Avdullah Hoti from the Democratic League of Kosovo, or LDK, to replace Acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti. Kurti met this vote of no-confidence with an appeal to Kosovo’s constitutional court.
Kurti’s “Self-Determination Movement” political party won the most seats in Kosovo’s general election in October. The Prime Minister and his supporters believe that the nomination of Avdullah Hoti was unconstitutional.
In 2010 and 2017, elections in Kosovo were immediately called for after a successful motion of no confidence. Prime Minister Kurtis’s appeal to the constitutional court, however, has unfairly received a different result: The court declared President Thaçi’s decree to be legal.
A Conversation With Kosovo’s Prime Minister Kurti
Journalist Allegra Nokaj recently sat down with Albin Kurti, Prime Minister of Kosovo, to discuss his disagreements with President Thaci, and relations between Kosovo and Serbia.