Kosovo Faces Third Election in Year

0:00It's April 29th. Welcome to Global News Today, powered by AI and connected worldwide. Kosovo just hit another political snag. Parliament failed to elect a new president by Tuesday's midnight deadline, triggering snap elections in. Europe's youngest country. Prime Minister Albin Kurdi couldn't rally opposition support for his pick, even though President Villosa Smoni's term ended in early April. This mess deepens a long-running deadlock that stalling Kosovo's push to join the European Union after months without a working government last year. Parliament's speaker, Al-Balina Haxiou, now acting president, declared the body dissolved based on a constitutional court ruling with the vote date. Coming soon? It marks the third election in just over a year, despite Kurdi's big win in December, proving even a low-power president is tough to pick win. Two-thirds of the 120 seats must show up.