Political chaos returns to Kosovo following a court ruling that invalidates the mandate of prime minister Avdullah Hoti.
Kosovo is heading for a snap election after the country’s top court annulled a parliamentary vote that installed Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti (pictured above), possibly unleashing a new crisis in Europe’s youngest democracy.
Kosovo’s constitutional court ruled that a parliamentary vote which in June installed Mr Hoti as prime minister was invalid as one of the MPs who made the new government’s majority possible, Etem Arifi, had earlier been convicted for fraud. Two months previously, a vote of no confidence had brought down the previous executive of Albin Kurti after less than three months in office.