Parties say they're ready for elections, s quite willing to campaign

Parliamentary political parties, mainly the biggest ones, have been frequenting meetings with their electorate in recent days.

According to analysts, the parties are trying to keep the electorate close and tow show they are ready for elections, but according to them these meetings can also be seen as a silent electoral campaign.

Imer Mushkolaj, political analyst, has told Radio Free Europe that political parties, since the election ended, have not stopped with different campaigns.

The latest “notes a more frequent dynamic of gatherings these parties hold. Of course, opposition party gatherings are expressive. But I, in addition to calling it more, also see it as an attempt to keep its electorate awake. As well as an attempt to cover up their inability to act in opposition. So with these gatherings, these opposition parties are trying to have their electorate say we are “here and we are planning to organise something”, Mushkolaj said.

Ruling and opposition political parties say their activities in recent weeks have nothing to do with the nature of any election campaign, but with political parties' internal activities.

Elmi Recica, deputy of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, told Radio Free Europe that their party, was one year in the election process, and their actions have no further election campaigns.

Whatever is happening is within that process that is legitimate and much earlier warned. Of course, opposition parties have more promises of what might be called desire and will for new elections, while for The PDK is the usual process”, Recica said.

Meanwhile, Kosovo Democratic League officials consistently say that current institutions have no legitimacy and, according to them, the country must go to early elections.

The most obvious testimony to the lack of legitimacy is seen in the House, where unfinished points are brought from one session to another from June last year. Those who in free elections earn the trust of citizens to lead with Kosovo, the same should represent Kosovo in the dialogue with Serbia”, the chief of LDK parliamentary group Avdullah Hoti, has written on Facebook.

Even the Democratic League of Kosovo is holding internal elections in all its branches.

While Victory Pacolli, MP from the political subject Vetevendosje Movement, various gatherings of citizens in Kosovo justify them, as she says, to protect the state from theft and corruption being made to the country by the ruling parties.

It's not a silent campaign. It's a cycle of meetings with citizens where we invite citizens together with civil society to end it. PAN thieves. This government, which is led by a group of political parties that steal the state, the income of Kosovo citizens should go as quickly as possible. So it's not an election campaign but it's a very loud campaign against PAN thief”, Pacolli said.

She said Vetevendosje is ready now for a new election process.

The further this process is postponed, the worse it will be for Kosovo”, Pacolli said.

Otherwise, Kosovo's budget was allocated more than 4m euros annually to political parties represented in the Kosovo Assembly.

The amount of means for financing the activities of political subjects is done on the basis of representation of the number of seats won in the Assembly for a mandate.

In addition to the means shared by Kosovo's budget, political parties are financed by other sources, which according to civil society representatives, in most cases these resources are from several private companies, which are subsequently rewarded with the granting of public tenders by the ruling party.