(ANSA-AFP) - PRISTINA, APR 29 - Kosovo's deeply divided MPs failed to elect a president on Tuesday, putting the country on course for a third election in just over a year. "This session marked the end of this legislature. The elections will be called within the constitutional deadline" of 45 days, parliamentary speaker Albulena Haxhiu told the lawmakers. Despite topping both of last year's general elections, Prime Minister Albin Kurti's centre-left Vetevendosje party has struggled with a deadlocked parliament to appoint candidates to top posts. It left the Balkan nation without a functioning parliament for most of 2025. Still, after eventually clearing that hurdle, a fierce disagreement among lawmakers has left it without a president for weeks after Vjosa Osmani's five-year term formally expired in early April, prompting her to temporarily hand over her duties to Haxhiu. The assembly, which has been in permanent session for the past few days, ended its meeting shortly before midnight on Tuesday, when the deadline to elect the new president expired leading the country to snap polls. The opposition boycotted the session and only MPs of the ruling Vetevendosje party and minorities were present in the parliamentary hall. But, it was not enough to make a required two-thirds majority of MPs to make a quorum and enable the vote on the president. (ANSA-AFP).