Neither Vjosa nor Luta HINA launch lynching campaigns against them in the race for LDK chief

Groups and potential candidates for the chairman of the Democratic League of Kosovo have already started the war between themselves, directly through the media, and at times using other methods of promoting their candidacy.

The party's deputy chairman, Lutfi Haziri, was the first to publicly acknowledge that he claims to run for the chairman of the Democratic League of Kosovo in domestic elections expected to be held in May of this year.

In a television debate, Haziri mentioned two options.

He proposed the possibility of reaching a joint political agreement within the party, where all potential candidates will support the LDK's elected chairman, no matter who he is.

This agreement, Haziri deliberately proposed preserving party unity because of warnings of divisions following the president's vote.

This proposal was supported by MP Lumir Abdixhiku, who said it is good to reach a joint-appointed agreement for party chairman.

But Haziri did not rule out another possibility. Run for party chairman, even if no common agreement is reached.

For Haziri's candidacy for LDK chairman, there has never been any party discussion ú the current chairman, Isa Mustafa, said yesterday.

Haziri's statements called them the words of television debates and nothing more.

But Haziri's chance of running for LDK) chairman prompted the reaction.

Looks like somebody didn't like this.

This was only days after Haziri's statement of running opportunities for the first of the largest opposition party, a photo of Uke Rugova, Sami Lushtaku and Sylejman Selimi began to circulated on social networks.

The picture was not current, so it was interpreted as an attempt to undermine Lutfi Haziri's image, following warnings that he would enter the party chairman's race.

The publication of this photo with the internal elections in the LDK also linked Haziri himself, who immediately reacted to Facebook.

It wrote that photography is not current, since it is abroad.

I'm reading and I'm looking at pictures on a few portals for supposed dinner last night in Gjilan. I'm traveling abroad for family motives. I'm sorry about the news level. There is neither truth nor time. I pray they have the power to deny this false news. The LDK race will preserve unity, democracy and strengthen the LDK. You can't break us anymore. The fear of someone being conveyed with false news is sold by some who fear the unity of LDK”, Haziri wrote on the social network Facebook.

In the picture that circulated on Tuesday in the media, Haziri is seen drinking wine, beer and eating abundant meat along with the PDK's Sami Lushtak, Sylejman Selimi, Uke Rugova and several others.

However, it was reported in the media that Haziri's dinner with Rugova, Selimi's Lushtaku was extended on 14 March.

Efforts to damage the image through videos of various materials on social networks also had the possible candidate for LDK chairman Vjosa Osmani, the most voted MP.

During yesterday's social networking day, a video against Osman was circulated, in which she was accused of treason.

The video was distributed by a page called “The LDK Academy”, and it was sponsored in order to be distributed as much on social networks as possible.

“She approached and raised Fatmir Sejdiu in politics, she betrayed him. Isa Mustafa made it powerful in LDK, she betrayed him. What new betrayal will Vjosa Osmani do?”, said in that video.

It is not known who stands behind these publications against Haziri and Osman, but it is allegedly that they are being done in order to damage their image, after mentioning as potential candidates in the race for the party's first.

Will Isa Mustafa run again for LDK chairman?

The definitive answer to that question, Mustafa didn't even give it himself.

At a media conference he held yesterday after meeting with party structures, where it was discussed in the domestic election process, Mustafa was reluctant to answer journalists' questions about the possibility of his running even a mandate at the helm of the LDK.

He laughed when one of the journalists present in the hall told him whether he would be part of the race for the post he is currently holding.

I didn't say I had a run, you said” addressed Mustafa the journalist.

At the same conference, he had two more questions on the same issue, but again he hesitated to answer.

He did not hesitate to send orders to all who, according to him, are trying to pry into the LDK's internal electoral process.

When we get to the bridge, I'll show you if I run for the LDK chairman. The LDK chairman will be elected on the basis of status. In the election, anyone who receives support from half of the Parliament will run, and as soon as he gains support, he enters the secret vote. That's the basis of the election. Women and men will attend. No one can stop anybody or even intend to do that. Sometimes I'm listening to them saying Mustafa's in the skilet. I'm telling you, I'm not embarrassed about this. We don't even get into this. It is not good for anyone to try to influence the election process in the LDK, as we have unity in the party”, Mustafa said.

At yesterday's conference, Mustafa had party vice-chairmen, Hakki Rugova and Agim Veliun, and party secretary Ismet Beqiri.

There were none of the current contenders for LDK chairman Lutfi Haziri or Vjosa Osmani.

For this, journalists did not hesitate to ask Mustafa.

“Lutfi Haziri contacted me two days ago and told me he couldn't have been at this meeting, as he was traveling abroad”, Mustafa said.

He also commented on the possibility of running Haziri or Osman for the first LDK.

At this stage, we are in choice of branches and subs, no one is thinking of their own, not Luta or Vjosa. When it comes to time, we think about it. We will examine any options and any claims for party chairman. What I can say is that the LDK is unique and will maintain the unity it has enjoyed so far. Ambitions are legitimate issues and can be followed by each”, Mustafa has said.

Officially it is still not known whether Isa Mustafa will again compete for the post of the LDK's first post, following the health problems he faced recently, which affected his appearance on the political scene.

But Periscop sources suggest Mustafa runs himself for a four-year term, aimed at preserving party unity.

But if that is impossible because of health problems, then he could delegate one of his most reliable people -- the LDK MP chief Avdullah Hoti, who also ran for prime minister in the recent parliamentary elections.

Thus, it seems that within the LDK there is a rift over names that will lead in the future with this party, not such a thing is trying to keep secret.

Vjosa Osman's and Lutfi Hazir campaigns through social networks

In addition to the campaign against Hazir and Osman, social networks included promotional campaigns for them.

Long ago, on Facebook a very active page was made viral that has been named “Vyosa Osmani ) chairman of LDK”.

On the site with more than a thousand followers distributed all the publications the most voted MP in Kosovo publishes in its private profile on this social network.

But before Osman wins the race on social networks, she will have to defeat even the old LDK wolves, such as Haziri War, Agim Veliu, Ismet Beqiri and others.

The country's largest opposition party, the Democratic League of Kosovo, is expected to hold party internal elections in the month of May next year, and envisions a fierce electoral race within this political subject, with many names referred to as a party chairman.

So it seems that gradually on social networks has begun the campaign to support Vjosa Osman for the first LDK.

In the country's last parliamentary elections, Osmani managed to secure over 64,000 votes, thus placing first on the list of most voted MPs.

This despite the fact that it was ranked 8150th on the LDK) list in the last elections.

Several years ago, Osmani had had a strong clash with current LDK chief Isa Mustaf, who opposed the coalition with the PDK and the agreement to make Thaci president.

Even Lutfi Haziri appears to have already launched the campaign for the party's first network.

It has recently disagreeed that he is distributing his photos on social networks, accompanied by short quotes, various messages, in his interviews with the LDK.

In addition to distributing them, Haziri is sponsoring these photographs with quotes so that they can become more viral.

In one of the photos, Haziri is seen near the late Kosovo president who came from the LDK ranks, Ibrahim Rugova, with whom he celebrated freedom and democracy in Gjilan.

In some of the photos published on social media, Haziri carries messages for dialogue with Serbia, the LDK's conditions for becoming part of a comprehensive government and friendly messages about the strong ties Kosovo should have with the United States.

Haziri has not even left messages for the purpose of his publication. The LDK's internal elections.

He has delivered a message in which he writes “The time has come for the post-Rovian period to enter a new phase. A major political agreement and a solemn LDK political assembly would build unity by taking on the role of the first party for the next 20 years”.

This was not Haziri's only message for the LDK's internal elections.

Among other things, he writes “The LDK needs unity and agreement to preserve this large political family. These must be choices, not to send others away, but to offer them. Choices where people don't eliminate but join to become more. Where the event is respected, but the door opens to the young man”. / P ERISCOPIA