Kosovo lawmakers elect a new president in a late-night vote to avert snap election

Lawmakers in Kosovo elected economist and academic Justina Shiroka Pula as the country’s new president during a marathon late-night session. The vote took place late Tuesday in Pristina, occurring moments before a crucial constitutional deadline that would have otherwise triggered a snap election.

The successful late-night vote serves to avert early elections in the country, resolving a tense political moment just in time to meet the constitutional requirement.