Overview
- Lawmakers gave prime minister-designate Glauk Konjufca 56 of 120 votes, short of the majority needed to install a cabinet.
- The impasse triggered the constitutional step for early elections, marking the first failed government formation since independence in 2008.
- Months of paralysis left the 2026 budget unapproved and stalled reforms, with some European Union and World Bank funding frozen.
- Opposition parties refuse to govern with Albin Kurti, faulting his handling of the Serb-majority north and strains with Western partners.
- Unresolved tensions with Serbia continue to block progress toward EU candidacy and are set to frame the election campaign.