Next week crucial for coalitions in runoff

Political parties have already started meetings for the possibility of connecting coalitions for the runoff, to be held on November 19th.

The coalition between VV and AKR in the Pristina municipality has recently been realised, as well as in the middle of the VV with AKR in Mitrovica, but some other parties have not yet decided who they will support.

Democratic Party of Kosovo Secretary Basri Musmurati, in a pronomation for Telegrafi, has indicated that it has not yet been decided on possible coalitions through most of the municipalities that will be in the runoff.

Even Kosovo Initiative Secretary General Bilall the Sheriff said they do not yet have any coalition agreement in the second round of elections, but according to him, next week the decision will be made on the issue.

While the deputy leader of the New Kosovo Alliance (AKR), Vesel Makolli, has suggested that the town of Mitrovica is important to them.

The coalition with Vetevendosje has been reached in the municipality of Mitrovica. We have also reached agreement in Kamenica to support the LDK candidate for chairman”, Makolli said.

On the other hand, Vetevendosje Movement spokeswoman Tinka Kurti stressed that so far this subject has linked three coalitions. The “so far have been linked to three local-level coalitions, in Dardan with AAK, Pristina with AKR and in Mitrovica with AKR”, Kurti said.

Telegrafi has also contacted the head of the Democratic League of Kosovo Parliamentary Group, Avdullah Hoti, to learn about the potential coalitions of this party, but has not received answers.

Also, Telegrafi has tried to make a statement by representatives of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, but contact with them was impossible.

Otherwise, political parties' candidates in the second round of local elections have not declared red lines of co-operation, and, as a result, coalitions between them could be changed from municipalities to municipalities. /