Kurti talks about “Der Spiegel”, newspaper: Everyone's scared of that corrupt politicians...

The German daily “Der Spiegel”, in an article published today, writes that everyone is afraid of Albin Kurti: The corrupt political establishment in Kosovo, the economy, the Serb minority, and the West, broadcasts.

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For a long time, Albin Kurti has refused to face the restrictions of a politician's day.

He preferred the image of a student revolutionary. For example, ties were not around his neck until recently.

Albin Kurti, 42-year-old political rebel of Kosovo and leader of the left-wing nationalist protest movement Vetevendosje, has adapted his clothes because he wants to become his country's prime minister.

“I am a politician in Kosovo who has mostly voters. People trust my party and me to create order and law”, Kurti tells the German newspaper.

Kosovo held early parliamentary elections on June 11th: “The coalition of commanders”, composed of former KLA leaders, did not win the devastating majority. But the PAN coalition won only 34 per cent of the vote, and that figure is not enough.

Albin Kurti's protest movement, Vetevendosje, which managed to win about 28 per cent, emerged the strongest individual party and current electorate.

She was able to double her vote against the June 2014 elections, while Kurti himself received more votes among all politicians.

If war commanders Kadri Veselini, Ramush Haradinaj and Fatmir Limaj from the three-party P coalition The DK, AAK and Initiative are unable to find coalition partners, Albin Kurti, can form the government.

But for many, it shows fear:

For political institutions, because he wants to clean up corruption and organised crime.

For economic representatives, because he is cautious with socialist-egalist ideas.

For UN and EU missions in Kosovo, because it condemns them as “colonial management”.

For Serb minority because it is considered a nationalist.

“Everything is wrong”, Kurt says in conversation with Spiegel.

Our negative perspective is a projection of the corrupt regime in the country, because we are for it in Kosovo to dominate democratic, legal and social justice”.

His party also had no problems with the Serb minority, but was just against the fact that Serbia had power on Kosovo territory.

“We are not against international missions in Kosovo, we just want to be treated as an independent, sovereign state, especially from the EU, nobody should be afraid of Vetevendosje and I”.

Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

Kurti, who now offers the appearance of a citizen man, is a bright future personality politicised in the long-standing movement of nonviolent resistance of Albanians in Yugoslavia.

As student activist, he organised protests against the regime of dictator Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s and later engaged in political representation of the KLA Liberation Army.

In 1999 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison in a strange trial, and only a year after Milosevic's fall was released from international pressure.

He was cofounder of Vetevendosje in 2004, whose ideas for fundamental democracy, civil society, republicanism and Albanian nationalism lead to a completely contradictory co-existence, “Zeri.info”

Vetevendosje gained fame after numerous and violent protests against the UN provisional administration of Kosovo and the EU's legal mission in Kosovo.

International missions in Kosovo have long lost credibility because they are being linked to the corrupt elite in the country, and because in recent years billions of euros have entered Kosovo without affecting the welfare of the people, Kosovo is by far one of the poorest countries in Europe.

Not only that, in recent years, Vetevendosje became the only reliable political party in the country in the eyes of many Kosovo Albanians.

The party in question was not until now part of the governing power in Kosovo.

In Pristina, she won the 2013 municipal elections and has since shown she is able to clean up corruption and nepotism.

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In the case of Western Kosovo administrators, Kurti and Vetevendosje, on the other hand, are seen as nationalist protesters.

In recent years, they have protested violence -- for example, with tear gas in parliament -- against the controversial Kosovo-Serbia peace dialogue, held in Brussels behind closed doors and except the Kosovo public.

Thus, Vetevendosje is strictly opposed to a special statute for the Serb minority, such as the “Association of Kosovo Serb municipalities”, which as an autonomous institution would have veto constitutional powers.

This would lead to Kosovo's deregulation, Kurti warns, referring to Bosnia and Herzegovina's strict ethnic division, which is increasingly degrading the state.

But Vetevendosje fears are unjustified. They say connoisseurs of these issues in the country.

“Internal Democraticisation would be a good thing”, says Luan Shllaku, director of the Kosovar Open Society Foundation (KFOS). Economist Andrea Lorenzo Capusela, who has worked in Kosovo's international civil administration from 2008 to 2011, is a similar critic of the corrupt and undemocratic situation.

“However, Vetevendosje should prove that it views the Serb minority as a legitimate part of Kosovo and should end with serious marginalisation of Serbs”, Capusela says.

Albin Kurti is actually a suitable candidate for such a project because he already felt the nationalism of some of his countrymen: When he married his Norwegian friend Rita Augestad Knudsen three years ago, the social networks followed the chauvinist and racist comments about Kurt because of the non-Albanian marriage “ ”.