Mustafa calls the government that remains hostage to two deputies and the Serbian List

He has not ruled out the possibility of the LDK being included in the future government, but without the PDK and maintaining the leadership position of the new government.

If we find the space to participate in government, while preserving our subjectivity, say both as a coalition and as the LDK, we enter. If not, we felt very good in the opposition during this period to help the country through the opposition”.

Radio Free Europe: Currently, the process of constitutionalising institutions released from the June 11th elections is under way. Do you see the possibility of an eventual crisis in the event of failure to reach a post-election coalition that would take over Kosovo's future rule?

Isa Mustafa: I think with irresponsible behavior, I've even said amateur political, we've put the country into an unnecessary crisis. Completely unnecessary. Me while I was in Italy, I saw what position we brought ourselves into. Instead of us in Italy communicating with people and opening up perspectives to ourselves, to co-operation in all the areas that the European Union and others are offering us, we must now come back and deal with ourselves. Meanwhile, five other Western Balkan countries follow the path of economic development, integration, of meeting various chapters the European Union has opened for their integration. And we have to go back and measure whether we can secure an MP, two deputies, three deputies, make Government or we can't secure it without any need.

Instead of going to regular elections, having a regular process, we've now come into a situation that no political subject, whether first, second or third, can do on its own. I can't do government with minorities, none of these subjects. It is also the problem of internal distrust that has been created in this process, because if I leave now the Democratic League of Kosovo or our coalition with the ARK, the Alternative and the Justice Movement.

Us like LDK have shown us distrust in the country. They have declared disbelief in us in the direction of government. And I would ask the question why they now require faith from us that we join the government, those who organised distrust of a government that led the LDK?

I don't see any kind of responsibility now of LDK for the future government, because this LDK and me as LDK chairman, they have said we declare distrust. So, the belief that you have secured the greatest economic growth in this country, which has never been 4 percent, the highest growth in the region, you who have fulfilled the 74 criteria of 94 that we have fulfilled during this mandate, you who signed the Stabilisation and Association Agreement, you who concluded the government without any corruption, do not believe that we otherwise want this country to rule. And how else, I don't understand, it means, without economic growth, without fighting corruption, and in this case I would ask for the responsibility of those who have taken the initiative to bring down government, but also to go to elections, that now let them do Government because then they joined together. The PDK, Vetevendosje, AAK, Initiative, Serbs along with them, minorities their destructive part because two subjects have been with us, but they have not participated in this collapse of the Government.

Radio Free Europe: Imagine crisis?

Isa Mustafa: I would like the Government to be founded tomorrow, no matter what happened because this country is in danger of moving forward without Government and without institutions. But I see it going pretty hard because that government, which remains hostage to two, three or four deputies or hostages of the 10 deputies of the Serbian List, who enter the hall tomorrow, and when they want to leave the hall and no law can be prosecuted in the Assembly, unless they participate in the vote of that 61 MPs.

That's the problem. It's not the problem of making big decisions, but it's the problem of making the decision to establish institutions and what decisions those institutions that have the majority, or what they have now or may have in the margin. So it will be a very controversial process for both the legislature and the executive in the future.

However, we need institutions and I would like these institutions to take place tomorrow.

Radio Free Europe: In these political circumstances, in these political developments where the LDK finds itself, in coalition with one of the subjects it has won, conditionily said, the right to form Government, or in opposition?

Isa Mustafa: Now I want to be open. I've been highly criticized by my copartisans, especially some, for the coalition I made in 2014. Of course, I didn't make this coalition on my own, but I did it with the decision and permission of the General Council, which is the body that the statute decides on it. At that time, we had decided with a great crowd. There were only five or six members of the Council against, and I in no case regret those we have done because this country must be governed and this country cannot be governed without coalitions.

And now we say that our current non-entering the coalition with the PDK does not mean that it is a matter of anger or the work of my fear or of the LDK by those who criticized us. But it's a matter of evidence that the PDK was completely incorrect, it didn't stick to the contract because the one who broke the contract, you can't say it violated one now let's tie another because they broke this coalition contract we had, and we don't trust to make a government contract anymore and we won't do it in any case.

We are able to talk to the AAK but when they are not in coalition with the PDK or the Initiative. Even with Vetevendosje, we'll see what can be drawn up in program views. But in fact, we are in no case defined or we feel comfortable entering into government because we have been in government and have not liked those who ask us today to rule with them, to govern the country.

But, however, we are aware and responsible for the situation in the country because this country should still have a Government. If we find the space to participate in government, while maintaining our subjectivity, both as a coalition and as the LDK, we enter. If not, we felt very good in the opposition during this period to help the country through the opposition.

So, we're open for one more time but we're never open to co-governing with a subject where the PDK is.

Radio Free Europe: Currently coalition PAN inside has PDK. If the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo and the Initiative were to emerge, do you consider the president to be right, then in the discretion to mandate another parliamentary majority?

Isa Mustafa: I think so, even though that Constitutional Court ruling leaves a lot of room for interpretation. When this decision was brought up in 2014, it was a bit of a struggle. The decision then has been brought, so that our coalition or our bloc that we had then, to be unable to make Government and there has been a co-operation of the Constitutional Court and the external factor to make that blockade. We were placed in barriers, which I listened to from internationals and then I saw them written down in this Constitutional Court decision.

Now the decision has given the president a kind of responsibility, which I don't know how the President will read and how his advisers will interpret. But, of course, it would be, if the first subject to come out with votes, now not the winner, because there is no winner here because the winner is when you can do Government, but the first subject, which cannot do the majority, secure 61 votes for Government, then the mandate to offer to the subject which offers that it can have 61 votes to make the new government. But the word "discreet" and the right word for the president to interpret this allows space to be interpreted in various ways and to damage the country.

In this situation, Macedonia would not have been able to make government because the Macedonians make Government by handing the mandate to those who argued they have votes to make government rather than the party that came first in the election.

We will wait, but it is also good for the Constitutional Court to interpret and not to say that the decision is clear because the decision is completely unclear, it is very confusing and it is written in a row, to help the president, so that tomorrow even the president does not enter any angle, say the violation or interpretation of the Constitution, and the country does not stumble in establishing new institutions.

Radio Free Europe: Ultimately, would the LDK be in government at its helm or would it be just part of a future government?

Isa Mustafa: We do not want to be part of a Government which would implement the programme, which is not a programme representing the values and ideals of LDK.

We want to be part of a Government where we will enable the market economy to develop, or say more precisely the social economy of the market, which is part of European People's Party programmes, to fight for the strengthening of the legal state, the fight against crime and corruption, to bring about European integrations as we have pledged, including dialogue with Serbia because even with the Stabilisation and Association Agreement, dialogue with Serbia is part of the implementation of this agreement.

We then see it as very difficult for such a programme to be realised if the LDK is not the pilot of this programme. But I've stressed that this is one of our conditions. We will insist that this too be part of our agreements, but if we do not find room for our programme to be implemented and that we have influence on that programme, of course we have no reason to contribute to the implementation of other programmes, which do not represent the values, ideals, strategies and orientation of the Democratic League of Kosovo.