# Kosovo lawmakers elect Justina Shiroka Pula president in late-night vote, averting snap election

https://mins.news/en/video/91089

- euronews, 2026-10-08 09:28 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_FsOE5M3qo

> Kosovo’s lawmakers elected Justina Shiroka Pula president in a late-night parliamentary session, averting a snap election and ending a legislative deadlock that had lasted more than 19 months. She is the third woman to hold the office since Kosovo’s post-war independence from Serbia.

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