Kosovo risks having to go to extraordinary parliamentary elections for the second time in a few months, this time to elect the President of the Republic. The constitutional framework has entered the term limit regime.

The Assembly has failed to initiate the procedure. At the end of the countdown, with no result in the remaining period, the country goes to elections.

In this type of spectacle, the new news is not the opposition of political parties to build through agreements what the fragmentation of the vote makes impossible. Nor the proverbial ease of pushing it without institutions, at both ends of the rope, thereby devaluing them.

The public in Kosovo has seen this spectacle, where the selfishness of not sharing power with the leading party that does not have the votes to govern alone on the one hand, and the reluctance of minority groups or formations to form a coalition with the leading party on the other, have left the country without a government emerging from the elections throughout the past year.

But the new news so far is that President Vjosa Osmani will not be re-elected. Five years ago, she was elected with the votes of her "Guxo" movement in alliance with the "Vetëvendosje" Party. In exchange, she made Albin Kurti prime minister with the votes of "Guxo", without which it could not have been done. Clean work, a duo of the new generation at the head of the new state of Kosovo.

Throughout these years, Osmani has presented Kosovo with dignity both at home and abroad. Making the function of the President in the Parliamentary Republic visible, useful and respectable - a very difficult task that requires training, personality and many other qualities that make up the figure of a stateswoman. She has kept open with international partners contracted or closed channels of political Kosovo. Without giving up on her causes and rights. Often covering in this regard the government under pressure, under sanctions or boycotted by allies.

Recently, Ms. Osmani received very good evaluations from President Trump at the Peace Board meeting in the US. Like no other senior Albanian official, she has held official meetings with pen and paper, as is said for working meetings, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Evaluating her personality and role in anchoring Kosovo as a friend and steadfast ally of the US, Washington knows well that a new President is expected to be elected in Kosovo. Evaluations of Vjosa in this context reveal an American preference for Kosovo to continue with Vjosa as President.

By removing it from the list and radar, Prime Minister Albin Kurti and other political leaders are not only wasting an already proven and experienced option, but they are also, whether they like it or not, challenging a strategic ally's preference for a candidacy that has done Kosovo good and can do more in the future.

A similar case with its own specifics is the blitz dismissal of Elisa Spiropali from the post of Foreign Minister before she had completed six months in office. One of the few cabinet ministers with a political career that gradually took her to the opposition and into power.

Around the world, the Minister of Foreign Affairs is replaced less frequently than other positions, and it even happens that he stays for more than one term when the respective party regains power. The reasons are anyone's guess. Foreign relations thrive on a bed of consolidated recognition, where the figure of the Minister or Ambassador as a person is a value in itself. They are not appointed today for tomorrow and cannot be replaced like the directors of the Mortgage Banks in Vlora, Durrës or elsewhere.

The dismissal of Spiropal by Prime Minister Rama without any explanation to the public, probably without prior notice, and even if he had been delayed even one evening in Kosovo where he was conducting an official visit, he would have had to dismiss him during the trip, is not justified without a very strong reason of a political-diplomatic nature, or some scandal. Which would have been known if they existed. If Rama has dismissed him to vent his frustrations from the relative international isolation during the last year, it is not that the doors will open as if by magic now that he has removed Elise. Because the isolation in question has nothing to do with the Foreign Ministry, but above all with his zigzags in support of justice.

If we were to consider the lack of reasons for the rumor that the Foreign Ministry has been sacrificed to Belinda Balluku, then her dismissal would no longer be a dismissal, but a humiliation, a medieval palace intrigue. To say the least.

I have never had more than a few greetings at Independence Day receptions with Vjosa Osmani. I have known Elisa Spiropali in the opposition as a young politician of the Socialist Party's youth forum and as a reader of fiction books. I have never met her in the institutions where she has led all these years of the Socialist Party in power. I have never had any work, not that I have any complex about meeting socialist officials in the office or for coffee.

So I don't have any personal motive to write the way I am writing about these ladies. But the work I do and the public interest require me to see and reflect the innovations in politics on the left and right.

Given the recent events with Mrs. Osmani and Spiropali and others like them over the years, it naturally comes to mind to ask: Why are cultivated and successful women stumbling, why are they told "stop", why do they leave at a certain point in their political careers when they announce a new leap to a stage of greater maturity and experience?

The question is rhetorical and it is not only for women. It is for men too. Everyone has an answer. It is the behavior of autocratic leaders who cannot stand personalities around them, who degrade into political barracks bosses, into petty worshippers of minimal values, into producers of voiceless employees through improvisation and extravagance in appointments, into violators and burners of political careers. This is how they lull their minds into thinking that they rule peacefully in the barracks. Forgetting that they are cutting not only the branch where they remain in power, but also the one where they dream of in history.