2019 Kosovan parliamentary election

On 19 July 2019 Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj resigned after being summoned for questioning by the KSC in The Hague, Netherlands.^[1] The constitution requires the President to designate a new candidate to either form a government, or hold new elections in between 30 and 45 days after consultation with political parties or coalitions who hold a majority in the Assembly.

On 2 August 2019, President Hashim Thaçi asked the PANA Coalition to propose a new candidate to form a coalition government. However, other political parties opposed the move.^[2]

On 5 August 2019, the Assembly of Kosovo agreed to hold an extraordinary session on 22 August, planning to disband itself so that elections could be scheduled.^[3] Subsequently, on 22 August 2019, MPs voted to dissolve parliament, with 89 of the 120 voting in favour, necessitating elections within 30–45 days.^[4]

The 120 members of the Assembly are elected by open list proportional representation, with 20 seats reserved for national minorities.^[5] An electoral threshold of 5% was in place for non-minority parties.

On 7 September the Election Commission published the official list of the 25 participating parties and coalitions.^[6]

Coalitions

Parties

The initial results showed that the pro-government NISMA–AKR–PD alliance fell only a few hundred votes short of meeting the 5% electoral threshold and lost all 10 of their seats. However, the Kosovo Election Complaints and Appeals Panel subsequently ordered around 3,782 votes originating in Serbia to be removed from the vote count as they had been delivered by Serbian officials rather than by post.^[13] The removed votes allowed the NISMA-led alliance to cross the threshold and win six seats, a reduction of four from the prior election. Vetëvendosje and the Independent Liberal Party (which lost its parliamentary representation) were the only other parties to see a reduction in their seat totals. The Democratic League of Kosovo, Democratic Party of Kosovo, AAK–PSD alliance and the Serb List all gained seats. Voter turnout was around 45%.

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Vetëvendosje	221,001	26.27	29	–5
	Democratic League of Kosovo	206,516	24.55	28	+5
	Democratic Party of Kosovo	178,637	21.23	24	+1
	100% Kosovo (AAK–PSD)	96,872	11.51	13	+3
	Serb List	53,861	6.40	10	+1
	NISMA–AKR–PD	42,083	5.00	6	–4
	Vakat Coalition	7,075	0.84	2	0
	Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo	6,788	0.81	2	0
	Egyptian Liberal Party	4,887	0.58	1	0
	New Democratic Party	3,935	0.47	1	0
	Ashkali Party for Integration	3,113	0.37	1	0
	Fjala	2,852	0.34	0	0
	Democratic Ashkali Party of Kosovo	1,963	0.23	0	–1
	Independent Liberal Party	1,859	0.22	0	–1
	New Democratic Initiative of Kosovo	1,755	0.21	1	+1
	Euroatlantic Party of Kosovo	1,173	0.14	0	New
	Unique Gorani Party	1,159	0.14	1	0
	United Roma Party of Kosovo	1,078	0.13	1	0
	Bosniak Party of Democratic Action of Kosovo	834	0.10	0	0
	Party of Kosovo Serbs	816	0.10	0	0
	Civic Initiative of Gora	785	0.09	0	0
	Movement for Gora	695	0.08	0	0
	Serb Coalition (Sloboda)	672	0.08	0	New
	Kosovar New Romani Party	289	0.03	0	0
	Independents	577	0.07	0	New
Total		841,275	100.00	120	0
Valid votes		841,275	96.20
Invalid/blank votes		33,271	3.80
Total votes		874,546	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,961,213	44.59
Source: KQZ, KQZ, KQZ