6 hours agoPower anxiety: Prime Minister Kurti in trouble with Kosovo's Trump Prophet
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The week is a time cycle consisting of just seven days, or just 168 hours, or 10 thousand 80 minutes, that goes as long as the clock. But this week seemed to be worth each of 604 thousand and 800 seconds after it was filled with drama and important events. In the hours [...]
In the early hours of midnight on October 7th, Monday, Kosovo was awake and anxious to update the Central Election Commission Web site.
Vetevendosje was leading with a very close advantage over the Democratic League of Kosovo [ The LDK], while the Democratic Party of Kosovo increased the number of MPs in parliament, was ranked only third. Meanwhile, the Social Democrat Initiative with the AKR, at times overstepped the threshold and fell by it.
Regular votes would be counted as a whole after only a few days, keeping Vetevendosje at the helm and the Initiative below the threshold, but various irregularities would emerge to the surface. The irregularities that seemed not deliberate, which still violated the will of Kosovo citizens. Of the many speculations that took place this week, it turned out that the commissionors had erred at many locations in describing the results on official CEC forms.
The biggest winner of these elections turns out to be the Serbian List, which won over 52,000 votes only from fair votes, taking all seats in the Kosovo Assembly that are reserved for the Serb community.
And yet, the likelihood of shaking the first place, Vetevendosje remains too small. So the drama lies in the fact that President Thaci will have to mandate Albin Kurti of Vetevendosje to form the New Government.
And, LVV and LDK wasted no time but met immediately to agree to discuss harmonisation of programmes and division of positions. LDK candidate for prime minister Vjosa Osmani appears to have agreed to take only the position of the deputy prime minister and that of the foreign affairs minister.
And, as meetings between the first two parties continue, other troubles have emerged. First, within LDK Agim Veliu stated little- too much that “LDK was stronger without Vjosa Osmani!” A statement that finds no support in the facts, as the LDK grew and nearly won, and since anyone else to be dominated for prime minister, it would come down very low. PDK. However, it is known that a group of people within the LDK are seeking Mrs. Osmani from the current position of power in which he is in the oldest party in Kosovo.
And meanwhile, Albin Kurti, in an interview with journalist Blendi Fevziu, returned to his national-Roman stances about the hava in relation to Albania and Serbia. He stressed his conviction that the National Union should happen, that we should hold strong negotiating stance towards Serbia.
The fever in the womb of Kosovo citizens introduced Special Representative Trump to Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue Richard Green. This is a strong man who stood by the extreme right, and who made different fights as American ambassador to Germany. Green met with all Kosovo leaders, including President Thaci, Albin Kurtin, Vjosa Osmani, Kadri Veselin etc.
It is not known how he would expect Kurt's stance on dialogue with Serbia.
Bad news for Kosovo Albanians, meanwhile, came from Sweden. Of course, bad is the very news Kadare again did not win. But this time the matter became even more painful when we saw who really won. It was Peter Handke, Austrian writer known for his fascist beliefs and support of Slobodan Milosevic and the Serbian regime during the former Yugoslavia. The news was loud on Twitter, but in vain, the Swedish Academy seems to have stuck its ears in its wool.
