Adding ministry numbers, an additional coalition option

According to them, it is now necessary for both parties to find creative solutions that would unblock the situation and reach a coalition agreement.

Political development acquaintance Artan Muhhaxhiri tells Radio Free Europe, which has been set up in talks between the Vetevendosje Movement and the Democratic League of Kosovo, also imposes radical solutions if there is the will to overcome this blockade.

The two parties, according to him, have already remained hostage to their promise that the joint government will have no more than 12 ministries.

As he says, in the absence of a normal power sharing strategy in order to reach an agreement between the two parties, then other real ideas should be sought, which, according to him, may be the increasing number of ministries in the future government.

The “would certainly also affect easing pressure within parties, which has Vetevendosje leader (Albin) Kurti, but also LDK (Isa) leader Mustafa. Thus, there is also great pressure from structures (party) to accommodate within ministries and that blockade could be related. The two parties could have stood before their electorates with respect for the idea that they benefited from power sharing and could have impacted as many areas of life”, Muhramiri said.

But, the other connoisseur of political developments, Armend Muja, speaking of Radio Free Europe, expresses the opinion that both parties targeting the ruling coalition -- the LVV and the LDK -- are already in the phase when they have exceeded disputes over the specific dictatorships and possible growth in the number of dictatorships -- do not see it as essential for reaching a coalition agreement.

Anyhow that doesn't rule out the fact that any creativity there, in the division of individual dictatorships, can facilitate the deal. But they have the constitutional criterion that, when the ministries are added, then the 13th Ministry should meet communities. Then there's a missing minister, this count of them. I mean, none of them can get. Then, it should be done 14 or 15 ministries, and that makes it difficult to get that concept, over which these parties have won the” election, Muja said.

However, both of these connoisseurs of political developments do not believe the Vetevendosje Movement and the Democratic League of Kosovo will choose the option of increasing the number of government dictatorships as opportunities for reaching the coalition agreement.

Muhhaxhiri says that despite being the real option, both parties have so far left the impression they lack the will to reach a coalition government agreement.

The “given the lack of will for co-operation between the Vetevendosje Movement and the Democratic League of Kosovo, then certainly they will reveal any other obstacle in order to justify the failure of the coalition. There are only two options: new elections or a broad government, with the set deadline, depending on international pressures and geostrategic agendas for the Balkans, which naturally affect Kosovo”, Muhajiri praised.

But, Muja expresses the opinion that neither the post of president nor the specific ministries are the main issues that impede the achievement of a coalition agreement between the Vetevendosje Movement and the Democratic League of Kosovo. According to him, both parties behave around two possible scenarios, which undermine the agreement.

“The first scenario is the German scenario, where the first party takes over the prime minister and the second party gets the deputy prime minister, as well as the second party gets the president and the first party gets the Speaker of the Parliament, while the division of ministries is equal. Meanwhile, the first partner steps down to a ministry until the post of president is elected by the LDK. This is the German script. The second scenario, which I think the LDK wants, is to go back on December 25th,”, Muja said.

Returning to the pre-December 25th situation, according to analyst Muja, means that the Vetevendosje Movement will comply with the demands of the Democratic League of Kosovo to withdraw from the decision chairman's position or that the head of the Assembly resign.