The issue of the presidential election led to the suspension of institutional functioning and the country ended up in early elections. As a result of the political crisis and the dysfunction of the Assembly, a number of international agreements will remain unimplemented, causing financial consequences for Kosovo.
Former Alliance for the Future of Kosovo MP Besnik Tahiri initially blamed the Vetëvendosje Movement as the parliamentary majority for the institutional blockage and the failure to implement international agreements, according to Ekonomia Online.
"The failure to implement international agreements is directly the responsibility of the majority. As the citizens of Kosovo know, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo voted for all international agreements without any conditions, without any preconditions, without any demands," he said.
Tahiri said that responsibility for the current situation falls on, as he called it, the "leadership" of the LVV.
"Therefore, the failure to implement international agreements by this government that is now in office is directly attributable to the stubbornness of the Vetëvendosje Movement, which at all costs tried to usurp the function of the President. Unfortunately, a million citizens of Kosovo will once again head to the ballot boxes, and at this time I hope that there will be a change, so that Kosovo can truly open up a new horizon and be governed, not ruled," he said.
He added that the damage caused by the electoral process and institutional blockade is great and still incalculable.
"While the damages cannot yet be calculated because they are too great. June 7 is the election, we do not know how long it will take to confirm the election results and we will not know when the new government will be formed. So, we are potentially talking about a situation, a circumstance, which could put the country in a blockade. And this is a huge loss and is not calculable at the moment. The essential calculation is that Kosovo is losing, and the loss is coming because the trust of the citizens of Kosovo, given to a political entity with over 51%, has been betrayed," said Tahiri.
Meanwhile, senior researcher at the Kosovo Institute for Law, Naim Jakaj, for Ekonomia Online mentioned the Growth Plan and the financial losses that, according to him, came as a result of the Parliament's non-functioning during 2025.
"As you know, from the growth plan, the agreements were negotiated in 2024 and they were approved this year, in February of this year. So, a year and a half with a lack of approval of these international agreements, for which Kosovo would have benefited by hundreds of millions of euros. As you know, 882 million euros have remained with the European Union and have not been able to come here because we did not have a legitimate and legal government, and we did not have a functional Assembly," said Jakaj.
According to him, problems will continue even in the implementation phase of ratified agreements.
Jakaj said that the lack of a government with a full mandate will make it difficult to execute these agreements and disburse funds from the European Union.
"As a result, we will face certain difficulties in implementing the agreements that have been ratified by the Kosovo Assembly, respectively in the disbursement of financial resources from the European Union, because there is no legitimate and legal government, in the full sense, to implement and execute those international agreements," he said.
He also mentioned the lack of budget planning and the necessary staff to implement the agreements.
"You know that the budget appropriations law was not reviewed for budget organizations that may be affected by additional staff in order to have additional staff to execute these funds. All these international agreements require additional staff that is not foreseen in the budget appropriations law for 2026, because we know how it was approved at the beginning of February with an accelerated procedure," he says.
Jakaj added that a government with a full mandate and functional capacities is needed to implement the agreements.
"Meanwhile, the execution of these agreements requires additional staff and, as I said earlier, a legitimate government that has emerged from elections and is legally and fully empowered. Currently, the government only carries out some tasks that are routine and foreseen in the budget allocation law for this year," Jakaj continued.
After the Constitutional Court's deadline for electing the President of the Republic of Kosovo expired on April 28, the Assembly was automatically dissolved and the country went to elections.
The acting President of Kosovo, Albulena Haxhiu, after consulting with political parties, announced elections for June 7, 2026.
Meanwhile, on April 10, 2026, MPs ratified four international agreements worth millions of euros.
The Loan Agreement between Kosovo and the International Development Association for the Kosovo Financial Sector Development Project received over 80 votes.
The loan agreement between Kosovo and the French Development Agency for the Policy-Based Loan Program was also signed. According to the Minister of Finance, Hekuran Murati, this agreement is worth 80 million euros.
The loan agreement between Kosovo and the German Government for loans in the energy and climate sector also received the green light.
Minister Murati said that this agreement, also worth 80 million euros, supports policies and reforms in the energy sector.
The Loan Agreement with the International Development Association for the "Western Balkans Trade and Transport Facilitation 2.0" Project was also ratified.
Murati said that the agreement is within the framework of a regional project that foresees 35 million euros as a loan and 12 million in the form of a grant.
Even though they were ratified, a functional government and assembly are needed for their implementation.
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