{"id":241093,"date":"2026-03-06T15:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=241093"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:41:14","slug":"kosovos-president-dissolves-parliament-and-calls-snap-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/241093\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosovo\u2019s president dissolves parliament and calls snap elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kosovo’s President Vjosa Osmani on Friday dissolved parliament and called snap elections after lawmakers failed to elect a new head of state within a constitutional deadline, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

As noted, the move extends a political deadlock in Kosovo, ⁠Europe’s youngest nation.<\/p>\n

The parliament ‌had until midnight on Thursday to choose a president before Osmani’s term ends in April, but opposition parties refused to participate in the vote. Under the Balkan country’s law, failure to elect a new president triggers snap parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kosovo’s President Vjosa Osmani on Friday dissolved parliament and called snap elections after lawmakers failed to elect a new head of state within a constitutional deadline, Reuters writes. As noted, the move extends a political deadlock in Kosovo, ⁠Europe’s youngest nation. The parliament ‌had until midnight on Thursday to choose a president before Osmani’s term […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":241045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241095,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241093\/revisions\/241095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}