TIRANA (Reuters) -President Vjosa Osmani has nominated former parliamentary speaker Glauk Konjufca as Kosovo’s next prime minister to try to avert a snap election, despite resistance to his candidacy by opposition parties.

Konjufca has 15 days to present a government for approval by parliament, which last month rejected the candidacy of Albin Kurti, a leftist and Albanian nationalist who has been caretaker prime minister since an inconclusive election last February.

Opposition leaders said after rejecting Kurti’s candidacy on October 26 that they would also reject Konjufca, who is an ally and aide to Kurti, and called for a snap election.

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