PAN can get votes for top parliament on this condition alone

He in the interview stresses that Vetevendosje has encountered a reluctance on the part of LDK for deepening co-operation.

Question: Mr. Konjufca, for more than two months with the certificate of election results, Kosovo is still failing to have new institutions. Several attempts have been made to elect the Speaker of the Parliament, but nothing has happened yet. Why is this situation happening?

Glauk Konjufca: These, I really think weren't even trying because we had the total lack of coalition presence. PAN at the sessions they were supposed to attend. So, we're talking about the founding session of the Republic of Kosovo Assembly. It's the fifth session, held yesterday. The PAN was shown only on the first day, only when it was carried out by MPs. Then, four other times, they have not appeared at all in the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo, and this suggests that institutions have been blocked due to this boycott.

Question: Political party chairman New Kosovo Alliance, Mr. Behgjet Pacolli, the Vetevendosje Movement and the Democratic League of Kosovo has given one, as it has been said, ultimatum to be done more eagerly for resolving the problem for institution creation. How do you view this request?

Glauk Konjufca: First, I think the election of the Speaker of the Parliament has nothing to do with the LAA coalition and Vetevendosje Movement. It belongs to the coalition. The plan is to settle this internal issue. So Kadri Wessel has already proven that he would not get votes for chairman of the Parliament. All that remains of the coalition The PAN is to change the candidate, another for the chairman, who would hopefully receive votes from the Vetevendosje Movement or from the LAA coalition.

Mr. Pacolli has wanted to show that the grouping he belongs to, which is within the LAA coalition, is not assimilated within that coalition, that he has some kind of subjectivity of his own, and he is very eager to show this kind of independence in politics. From his proposal for the sweeping government, down to this recent ultimatum, you see some kind of independence of their group within the LAA coalition.

But with their ideas, I disagree. The comprehensive government would be a bad idea for Kosovo, it would be some kind of amnesty for abuses and for the present, largely dominated by the PDK. For us, the best solution is for the PDK to go into opposition. So a solution, of future governance where the PDK would go into opposition, not a government where the PDK would be part, so the PDK would be part of a future government.

Question: Several meetings have been held between AAK and AKR leaders. Do you think the LDK-led coalition is stable?

Glauk Konjufca: So far some internal disagreement has emerged there. And the work of these deputies, to whom they turn. The PAN to turn around, they're not from Vetevendosje but they're from the Democratic League, so they're from the LAA coalition. One is from the AKR, the other is from the LDK, so it's talking about Teuta Rugova and Labinot Tahiri. These are the ones who have had meetings with Mr Haradinaj, who has tried to convince them to become part of the future government.

As far as results are concerned, I don't know, it's more sure it looks like Teuta, which is already agreed to be part of a decision-making together with the PAN coalition. Labinoto Tahiri has so far denied it, but there were meetings. I don't know, it is expected to be seen what will happen in the day when maybe a government will be given a chance to vote in the Kosovo Assembly.

Question: Could there possibly be stronger co-operation in the future between Vetevendosje and LDK?

Glauk Konjufca: Vetevendosje is very willing to go in this direction but we have encountered a reluctance by the LDK for deepening co-operation. We have given the vision of what the future government of Kosovo should look like. It would be best to have a combination between the LAA coalition and the Vetevendosje Movement. There's no other choice. That's the clue. We have three main political forces in Kosovo, these three PAN, LAA and Vetevendosje.

If Vetevendosje with LDK are both against joining the PAN coalition, then there remains a perspective for the future government to be formed between our two political forces. But I'm surprised by this LDK hesitation of recent weeks, especially for the past two weeks. So there's been a total analysis of the LDK, the failure to respond when we ask for meetings, in which we could talk about programmes, what Kosovo needs, what future government. At our last meeting, they insisted that there be no expansion of conversation beyond the discussion of the founding session.

Question: Mr. Konjufca, why are you asking to change the candidate The PDK for president of Parliament, when has the Constitutional Court ruling seen the right of the winning coalition to run the person it wants?

Glauk Konjufca: We don't deny that person to run. He would have to run and vote. No Fair by Coalition PAN that did not put Kadri Veselin in the vote is a strategy to block the Kosovo Assembly.

We do not deny them the right, although I disagree with the Constitutional Court's decision, we must determine whether to respect that decision or not.

If we are determined to respect such a decision until we change it, then the coalition PAN would have to come and show up at the next session in the Assembly and propose Kadri Veselin to the vote.

Question: Threatened for Prime Minister by Coalition PAN, Ramush Haradinaj, has said that within 10 days Kosovo will have new institutions. What do you think?

Glauk Konjufca: I don't know when this will happen, but if Government were created by the coalition PAN, then, would have great costs for Kosovo both democracy and parliamentary life in general, but also for Kosovo's citizenship. The first, by understanding the standards of democracy, the hard-pressed obedience of MPs, or in exchange for advantages of changing their mind, this is very damaging to democracy in Kosovo, the more it is talking about Teuta Rugova, for example, and her brother's case.

If you do favors in justice, then the international processes ahead are also severely damaged, first the visa liberalisation. You create favours in the judicial process to a man who is on charges of forging visas, I think that in Kosovo, at least the next five years would be delayed by the visa liberalisation process for Kosovo. It is a huge damage to Kosovo and it is a huge damage when a person with criminal precedent, who is precisely due to visa counterfeiting -- that is, visas in Kosovo are not safe -- to be released from the indictment in favour of the upcoming government vote of the Republic of Kosovo on the part of his sister. These would be family favors, which seriously and essentially affect the state of Kosovo.

On the other hand, if it is done with Serbian Lisa and 59 MPs they have, the Serbian List becomes a decision-making factor within Kosovo. This harms Kosovo's statehood because it is so empowering Belgrade in Kosovo that they will not seek many different favors, ranging from municipal competencies, to the creation of “Zayednica” with executive competence in Kosovo, as signed in Brussels, but we know that the Constitutional Court has rejected it.

They will insist on a “Zieednica”, as originally signed between Isa Mustaf and Aleksandar Vuciqi, and that I think it was Kosovo in some kind of unfavourable situation, in the sense of sovereignty, territorial integrity and the perspective of a statehood, just so healthy, in the Republic of Kosovo. So even if we see it, the power of the Serbian List even if we see it from the favors that MPs assigned to buy or sell it, and democracy and parliamentarians are damaged. But Kosovo's citizenship, I think, is weakened by the way the future government of the Republic of Kosovo is supposed to be established.