PRISTINA: Kosovo heads to the polls for parliamentary elections on Sunday, the third in just 18 months, as no one party has been able to gain a strong enough majority to pull the Balkan country out of a political crisis. Europe’s youngest nation has aspirations to join the European Union but has had no functioning government for much of the last year as its fractured parliaments failed to elect first a speaker and then a new head of state. No opinion polls have been conducted recently but analysts predict victory again for Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s Vetevendosje party.

Although Prime Minister Albin Kurti's party won the election in February 2025, he lacked the majority to form a government and called a snap poll in December. #EuropeNews

Voters in Kosovo are heading to the polls this weekend for the third time in 18 months. Frustration is growing over a political impasse in the small Balkan country, which aspires…