Opposition in search of three votes to oust Haradinaj Government

Opposition parties continue to contest the legitimacy of the current Kosovo government, but have officially not undertaken any initiative towards raising any no-confidence motion, because they lack the votes needed to oust the Haradinaj government.

The chief of the Democratic League of Kosovo Parliamentary Group, Avdullah Hoti, told Radio Free Europe that following recent political developments, the only chance to change the situation in the country is to bring down the current government through the no-confidence motion.

“The motion of confidence is the only way to get the country out of crisis. Today I have had meetings with the chairman of the Vetevendosje parliamentary group even with the chairman of the Social Democrat Party parliamentary group. I have clarified to them that our parliamentary group will formally meet these two other parliamentary groups to file the vote of confidence as soon as we can, Hoti said.

He said the political crisis in the country has deepened over the past many weeks.

Hoti has cited political interventions, as he has called them, in the justice system on the part of the Kosovo government, as well as the next case, according to him, that of President Hashim Thaci, who is expressing willingness to negotiate with Serbia the Kosovo border issue.

According to Hoti, these issues make the motion and formation of new legitimate institutions that can speak on behalf of citizens urgent.

At the moment, the three opposition parliamentary groups have 58 votes. Three more votes are needed to pass your vote of confidence. We will also try to agree with other parliamentary groups, seeing that even those who cannot function that way. One thing is clear that the Kosovo Assembly, institutions cannot function normally because there is no parliamentary majority”, Hoti said.

Meanwhile, Vetevendosje Movement MP Rexhep Selimi told Radio Free Europe that currently the opposition's role is not proportionally sufficient to demand a no-confidence motion.

The opposition “Nums are currently not enough to demand the motion against the government, and that is understandable because we don't have enough numbers. The procedure knows how it is, we have to have 61 who vote for the crash to look for this and we don't have those numbers. I call on majority deputies to be aware for a moment that they primarily belong to Kosovo and then to political parties. And in that case, they would have to put their role in Kosovo's service before serving their own parties”, Selimi said.

Selimi says Kosovo Assembly deputies, as representatives of the country's citizens and interests, should be at the highest level of responsibility and reflect on the situation in which Kosovo is introduced.

He said those deputies of those political parties who have voted the current government and the president would have to reflect on the situation as soon as possible.

So the opposition can come together, we can talk together, we can call the session together, but what needs to happen is stop the wrong trend and the opposition numbers are still out of the”.

Kosovo is in a state of emergency. Kosovo is even at risk this time not only from Serbia and its companies are at risk even from the approach of institutional leaders of the Republic of Kosovo”, Selimi said.

The current ruling coalition continues to face the fact that the majority's defeat in the Assembly has already gone into opposition.

Given the current situation, the government does not have the majority, but neither does the opposition have the 61 votes needed for the collapse of the government.