The acting president of Kosovo, Parliament Speaker Jakup Krasniqi, dissolved the Kosovo Parliament on Nov. 2 and called snap elections for Dec. 12.

The Kosovo Parliament earlier, on Nov. 2, brought down the Kosovo government in a vote of no confidence. Sixty-six MPs voted to topple the government of Hashim Thaci and one was against. The Kosovo Parliament has 120 seats.

Behgjet Pacolli's New Kosovo Alliance had insisted that a vote of no confidence take place.

The demand was also signed by MPs from the Democratic League of Dardania and by two MPs from Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo, as well as by one MP from the Democratic League of Kosovo.

Following the Kosovo Parliament's decision, Kosovo Acting President Jakup Krasniqi had to dissolve parliament and call snap elections.

At the beginning of the session, New Kosovo Alliance whip Ibrahim Makolli said that Hashim Thaci's government had badly managed Kosovo and that elections were the best way in which to exit the current institutional and political crisis.

Thaci afterwards asked MPs to end through their vote the institutional and political crisis which had arisen after Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu, following a Constitutional Court verdict, resigned. After his resignation, ministers from Sejdiu's Democratic League of Kosovo also resigned and left the government.