PDK seeks Driton Selmanaj dismissal

THE entire debate stemmed in the way we wanted more transparency from the government. We are still concerned about the lack of transparency, which lack of transparency is a deficit in the legitimacy of those they represent. We're worried about the lack of consensus and even about the lack of interest in building it. The entire debate went to the demands MPs had for transparency”.

We've had some reporting in advance, but we believed that at least the technical groups that are dialogue and negotiating in Brussels will have more information on what's going on. But unfortunately again, we came out of this session with very little information”.

From what we heard today, it turned out that their success is to draft three paragraphs that we were not even read. We didn't hear about many aspects, we actually got more confused after the hearing than we were before session”.

Ismaili said he hopes today's debate in the Parliament will serve the negotiating team to prepare more for future rounds of talks with Serbia.

“I am strongly believing that at least after this debate, this government will reflect and go more prepared next time. If they are unprepared to appear before the Kosovo Assembly deputies, then it is for us to stir up doubts about how to negotiate the country's most important and complicated issue. Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti repeatedly mentioned that this point is the first point of the final agreement, but since they have not signed will not become a final agreement without the issue resolved. This remains in the rhetoric board, because we wanted to know exactly what agency they're going with”.

An e-mail Deputy Prime Minister Driton Selmanaj had sent to the Commission for Human Rights, after being invited to report on the issue of the found, has caused verbal clashes between him and MP Besa Ismaili.

Ismaili, just as in the Parliament, has said Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti must dismiss Deputy Prime Minister Driton Selmanaj.

“Unfortunately with Deputy Prime Minister [Driton Selmanaj] we have had a kind of battle we've been talking about as the Commission for Human Rights. We invited him and he gave us an answer. I've been saving from the public the email the deputy prime minister sent, though indirectly I've spoken, because it's a pity for all those who hear it, especially for the family of the undiscovered”.

He again appeared in the speaker twice and told us in our eyes things that were peaceful, so we were forced to expose him. I was waiting for someone who can stick to his words and the least he can do, if there's a point of moral and professional integrity, is apologize, but he insisted on the same”.

“If Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti fired Deputy Prime Minister Driton Selmanaj would be an act of confidence building with the opposition and with all citizens, which this prime minister does not have. If he downloaded it, and I hope it will, the fact that it promotes responsibility and transparency, then maybe that would be a more argument on his side”.

The PDK MP has been giving more details about how the whole event has turned out that today slammed him into the second man of government.

We knew what the prime minister is up to, so we invited the deputy prime minister. On the e-mail that the deputy prime minister sent to us, after writing to him twice, it said the subject of the found ones and dialogue was consumed in the Assembly after the prime minister reported for several hours. He [Driton Selmanaj] said he does not see the moment to discuss the issue. The deputy prime minister denied this today and tried to reason. But after reading the e-mail, that attitude was not dignified for a top public official”.

“The issue of the found is always current. How could it not be for Kosovo when there are still open wounds, in the meantime that the issue of the missing in the world is discussed even a century behind?