| Election Name: | February 2011 Kosovan presidential election |
| Country: | Kosovo |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2008 Kosovan presidential election |
| Previous Year: | 2008 |
| Election Date: | 22 February |
| Next Election: | 2011 Kosovan presidential election |
| Next Year: | April 2011 |
| Needed Votes: | 80 (1st & 2nd rounds) or 61 (3rd round) electoral |
| Votes For Election: | 120 members of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo |
| Image1: | Bp2015.jpg |
| Nominee1: | Behgjet Pacolli |
| Party1: | New Kosovo Alliance |
| Electoral Vote1: | 54, 58, 62 |
| Percentage1: | 51.67% |
| President | |
| Posttitle: | President-designate |
| Before Election: | Fatmir Sejdiu |
| Before Party: | Democratic League of Kosovo |
| After Election: | Behgjet Pacolli |
| After Party: | New Kosovo Alliance |
| Election Name: | April 2011 Kosovan presidential election |
| Country: | Kosovo |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2011 Kosovan presidential election |
| Previous Year: | February 2011 |
| Election Date: | 7 April |
| Next Election: | 2016 Kosovan presidential election |
| Next Year: | 2016 |
| Needed Votes: | 80 (1st & 2nd rounds) or 61 (3rd round) electoral |
| Votes For Election: | 120 members of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo |
| Nominee1: | Atifete Jahjaga |
| Party1: | Independent |
| Electoral Vote1: | 81 |
| Percentage1: | 67.5% |
| Nominee2: | Suzan Novoberdali |
| Party2: | New Kosovo Alliance |
| Electoral Vote2: | 19 |
| Percentage2: | 15.83% |
| President | |
| Posttitle: | President-designate |
| Before Election: | Behgjet Pacolli |
| Before Party: | New Kosovo Alliance |
| After Election: | Atifete Jahjaga |
| After Party: | Independent |
Indirect presidential elections were held in Kosovo on 22 February 2011 and 7 April 2011.
As stipulated in the coalition agreement between the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and the New Kosovo Alliance (AKR), the AKR's leader Behgjet Pacolli was to be elected president by the coalition's MPs. However, not all members of the PDK were in favour of this.
It took three rounds of voting for Pacolli to be elected; he got 54, 58 and 62 votes respectively. Only 67 MPs were present, with the 53 opposition MPs boycotting the election.[1] [2]
The election was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court on 28 March 2011 with a vote of 7 to 2, as the necessary quorum had not been reached in the first two rounds.[3] [4] Pacolli resigned on 30 March 2011 and was again replaced as Acting President by Jakup Krasniqi, the Assembly's speaker.[5]
In a second vote on April 7, the PDK, AKR, and the opposition Democratic League of Kosovo agreed on a compromise candidate: police commander Atifete Jahjaga. She was elected with 80 votes of the 100 MPs present.[6]
It was also agreed that she would only serve on an interim basis, with a direct presidential election planned for 2012 after the necessary constitutional changes have passed. The Constitutional Court however, ruled against shortening the term of the sitting president.[7] and Jahjaga sat for the full term of five years.
A decision was also made to hold early parliamentary elections in early 2013,[8] which was later held in 2014.