Kosovo’s parliament faces an October 6 constitutional deadline to elect a new president or trigger fresh snap elections after Vjosa Osmani’s term ended in April and Albulena Haxhiu assumed acting duties. Vetëvendosje and the Democratic League of Kosovo reached a late-August agreement to back Bekim Sejdiu, a former diplomat and Constitutional Court judge, as a consensus candidate requiring at least 80 votes in the first two rounds. Internal LDK dissent from six MPs has blocked the necessary quorum, leaving the outcome dependent on party discipline, minority-party support, and last-minute negotiations ahead of the court-imposed cutoff. This uncertainty sustains closely matched probabilities across leading names while underscoring the structural barriers to any single contender securing the required supermajority.