Periscop analysis: The Initiative's Lost Way

The latest development in Fatmir Limaj's party was the name change. From “Nisma for Kosovo” it became “Social Democrats”. She had already declared her ideological profile as Social Democrat, but it wasn't taken so seriously, and maybe there was a need for even stronger identification with social democracy, through the name itself.

But an inconsistent problem is this party's past. Founders of the Social Democrat Initiative were also founders of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, profiled as the centre-right party. They even stayed in that party for over a decade. And it hardly makes its economic program serious in the eyes of citizens.

Asked what he thought of communist dictator Enver Hoxha, head of the party's National Council in question, Jakup Krasniqi, had said only good words, shocking public opinion. This may be viewed as one of the first leftist stutters of the Initiative, but it is in fact a stutter of love for its nationalism, after breaking ties with China. But this shows one more thing: that even the Initiative, as in the PDK, ideological orientation does not matter.

However, the Social Democrat Initiative should be appreciated for the work it is doing on the ground and the deterioration or reduction it is doing to the branches of the Democratic Party of Kosovo.

Continued work through branches, and pronomic clientelemism through his taken at the Haradinaj Government, make the party led by Limaj not difficult to pass the threshold in the upcoming elections.

She's making investments at the representative level, so far, bringing two former journalists to the party: Resul Sinan, former designer at RTK and Kastriot Sylejmani, former editor at KTV. However, even if you take dozens of other journalists to the party, it is hard to imagine that this party will lure undecided citizens or take voters from Vetevendosje's LDK.

The initiative is currently struggling on two fronts with two much stronger opponents -- on the ground, with the PDK having markedly greater powers. Meanwhile, at the representational level for social democracy, with Vetevendosje, which better articulates [you, why, or even, that once the primary has nationalism].

Will the Initiative survive on the political scene in Kosovo? It can survive for the next four years, but on long-term plans, lost on both fronts mentioned earlier, it will be forced to melt either at the AAK or on the Vetevendosje movement because of their nationalist character.

Social Democrat Initiative must make maximum effort in its field struggle against The PDK, in order to crush clientele and force it to as a party that has greatly damaged the country through its way of organisation, to reconsider and restructure. This is the greatest good this party can do to the country.

The biggest harm is if it melts into Prime Minister Haradinaj's current party, the AAK, which for the ruling form is even worse than the PDK. In the best of the country, it would be a possible union with one of the other two Social Democrats, Vetevendosje, or PSD, depending on what has the greatest potential to bring down power, which seems to be in a position for the PDK and PDK for the next ten years.

As with the AAK, nothing can be said about the Initiative in terms of domestic democracy. That's impossible.