Vetevendosje, LDK, with positive signals for forming new government

Unlike the past, when after parliamentary elections there were highlighted delays in the constitutionalisation of central institutions, referring to the recent 6 October elections, political analysts in Pristina do not predict there will be major delays.

Given the preliminary outcome of early parliamentary elections, the Vetevendosje Movement and the Democratic League of Kosovo, which have won the most votes, claim to put together the next Government of Kosovo.

The two winning parties have warned the launch of negotiations on forming the government. As of today, it has been warned that representatives of the two parties will meet to start negotiations about forming new institutions.

Vetevendosje Movement Chairman Albin Kurti, who on the basis of the election result, is expected to be the next prime minister for Kosovo, has warned of the launch of talks with the LDK since Thursday.

In recent elections, Vetevendosje leader Albin Kurti and LDK candidate for prime minister Vjosa Osmani are seen as the two main figures for the position of Kosovo's next prime minister. At the same time, when the election result favors Vetevendosje leader, Osman is ready to co-operate with Kurti for the establishment of the coalition government.

The LDK-LVF coalition has many challenges before it itself, but it should have only one interest: that of the citizens of Kosovo”, Osmani wrote on Facebook.

Political Affairs analyst Ilir Ibrahimi tells Radio Free Europe that these two political parties have given positive signals to the coalition even before the elections, so, according to him, there is not expected to be procrastination about the formation of the new government.

He says these two parties can secure the necessary majority to form Kosovo's next government. Ibrahim adds that both parties, the Vetevendosje Movement and the Democratic League of Kosovo, now only have to sit down and see what the interparty agreement on forming the new government will be.

“I don't believe there will be procrastination of forming the government, because in two sides past elections when we had such procrastination, it has been seen that the winning party has the right to elect the chairman of the Parliament and the government mandate, so this will not be contested by any political party, but political parties have learned from these processes. So it is not that they can take anything out of any such process”, Ibrahim said.

In addition, we know that we have a difficult process of dialogue with Serbia, a process that is expected to start very soon and have an epilogue because we have seen it from international representatives who have visited Pristina and the positions of the Quint countries, so I don't believe that the Kosovo political class has luxury of making such delays”, says Ibrahimi.

For the formation of the Government of Kosovo, at least 61 votes in the Assembly are necessary. The coalition or the winning party, primarily accounts in post-election coalitions even in minorities, as the constitutional category necessary for involvement in the government.

Even political affairs analyst Ramush Tahiri told Radio Free Europe that he expects no delays in the institution of new Kosovo institutions after the 6 October elections. According to him, by November Kosovo could have the new Government.

According to Tahiri, the two parties -- the Vetevendosje Movement and the Democratic League of Kosovo -- have already agreed that the prime minister belongs to the subject that has won the most votes and that only programme harmonisation remains.

The parliamentary elections showed the change as the expressed will of the people. Vetevendosje came first, followed by few votes or by one or two deputies less by the Democratic League of Kosovo. Kosovo has never experienced such a coalition of social democrat and liberal-democratic orientation, but expresses a new government Elan. Problems related to the establishment of the government of these two parties I don't see, because they have had partnerships to make pre-election coalitions and they have not only agreed on the formal side of the prime minister's appointment, but they have basically agreed that the prime minister belongs to the first subject in the election, and that solves the matter”, Tahiri says.

As to program issues, Tahiri adds that he will soon harmonise, for he says he will also have international expert assistance.

In the past after the elections, the constitutionalisation of new institutions in Kosovo has usually faced difficulties.

Following the 2017 elections, creating a parliamentary majority in the Kosovo Assembly had been a real challenge for then-June 11th winning coalition, dubbed the coalition. The PAN, which had separately included the Democratic Party of Kosovo, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo and the Initiative for Kosovo.

The coalition was managed to be created after three months by holding elections.

A longer time for the establishment of new institutions had occurred in the 2014 parliamentary elections. At the time, the ruling coalition between the Democratic Party and the Democratic League of Kosovo was managed to take place after six months of holding elections.