New Kosovo Adminstration Expected Next Month

Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga confirmed on Tuesday that a constitutive session of the new parliament would be held on December 8 after a meeting with the leaders of the two parties involved in the coalition - Hashim Thaci of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, and Isa Mustafa of the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK.

"[The leaders] informed the president that their political bodies and the working groups for the harmonisation of the joint governance coalition will be ready to call a session of the Assembly of Kosovo to elect the organs of this institution and to vote for the government and its government programme on December 8," reads a press release issued by the Kosovo Presidency on Tuesday.

Last week, the PDK and LDK finally reached a coalition agreement almost six months after general elections were held.

Before reaching the agreement, the PDK and an opposition coalition led by the LDK had been fighting over which has the right to choose the speaker of the assembly.

This in turn delayed the establishment of other central institutions.

The opposition coalition agreed after the elections that Mustafa would be the speaker of parliament, with the promise of the presidency once Jahjaga leaves office in 2016.

But a ruling by the Constitutional Court in August wrecked that deal, annulling Mustafa's election and confirming that the PDK, as the largest single party in parliament, had a right to the post.

In the aftermath of the court ruling, which effectively allowed PDK to stall the formation of a government indefinitely, the post-election coalition failed to reach a new power-sharing agreement.

Finally the PDK and LDK reached their deal which paved the way for a new government to be established.