LDK does not “back”: If Albin Kurt doesn't remove 100 % taxes, they're gonna take any proposal from Government.

The newspaper Blic from sources within the LDK has learned that the country's Prime Minister Albin Kurti's proposal to lift the tax in part will not pass to the government.

“If the country's prime minister, Albin Kurti will bring the decision to the government as a vote for partial tax removal will not be voted by LDK ministers”, an LDK official said under anonymity conditions.

Meanwhile, officially no one from the LDK has wanted to talk about the issue, how members of the government cabinet will act in relation to this Kurti proposal.

It turns out that even the two members of the government cabinet from the Serbian List will not vote for Prime Minister Kurti's proposal to partially remove taxes.

And the LDK sources consider that this Kurt proposal will not be passed on to the government, because there will be overvotes of the proposal.

“7 LDK votes against, and two others from the Serbian List against, will tear down Kurti's proposal in Government, for the fact that he has only 8 votes, insufficient to decide without the reconciliation of coalition partners”, these sources of Blic newspaper say.

From the LDK, they say their position on the tax is the request of Kosovo's guests, especially from the US. Therefore, the LDK does not want to spoil relations with the US.

Tax removal once, then reciprocity

Albin Kurti has warned partial tax removal.

He has indicated that on March 15th, he will first remove the tax on the first subject coming from Serbia, and remove it completely from April 1st. For the complete removal, he had declared that Serbia has 2 weeks of deadline to “reflect”, in relation to Kosovo.

Kosovo Government chief Albin Kurti, although he had publicly promised that I would first place reciprocity, and then remove the tax, he is already planning to impose reciprocity after the tax is lifted, and depending on Serbia's “bringing”.

However, the LDK, led by Isa Mustafa, is classical against this Kurt proposal.

Unless the LDK is seeking immediate removal of the tax, it opposes the deployment of the recomprocity measure.

The LDK has even warned that it will leave the government, if Albin Kurti does not remove the tax this week, as is the US president's special emissar for Kosovo-Serbia talks, Green.

 Gaseta Blic's sources within the LDK have indicated that the headship of this party has decided tonight that we should stand up and go out with attitude, and that Prime Minister Albin Kurti, he has two ways: either he has taxes removed as the United States is looking for, or the LDK will leave the government.

“Tonight we come out with our final stand. Even Mr. Kurti, it's not possible to continue. American pressure is at the highest point it's ever been. The Democratic League of Kosovo has repeatedly made clear to all that reports with America dare not endanger any person, whoever he is. We will eventually demand that the American call be heard for tax removal, or the LDK will no longer be part of the government”, This source told him.

On the other hand, LDK officials at private meetings reported to Prime Minister Kurti that they cannot wait indefinitely for the decision to be made.

Even, they have told Kurti that for LDK, disobedience to the US request will follow the departure from the Kurti Government.

Avdullah Hoti and Isa Mustafa continue pressure on Albin Kurti

Deputy Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti has demanded that taxes on Serbian goods be lifted immediately.

He has written on Facebook that this tax is a geopolitical cause.

His full note:

Serbia's commitment to defactorising Kosovo's subjectivity is systematic, indicating it opposes the normalisation agreement. This is not new.

The new is the political context in Kosovo, where new institutions that have full legitimacy citizens now take over the agenda of dialogue and foreign policy.

Clearly, this new government agenda can only succeed in co-ordinating the US and EU.

The eventual publicisation of Kosovo's new institutions faces these topics because of the geopolitical causes, such as the tariff, leads to ghettoisation.

We will not allow Kosovo's ghettoisation because it allows Serbia space to damage our international position.

That the LDK is seriously considering leaving the government if Kurti does not change his stance, Democratic League Chairman Isa Mustafa and the first deputy prime minister, Avdullah Hoti, have said.

On Sunday, Isa Mustafa, through a long status, made it clear that the LDK could not stay in Government if there were to reject American demand and jeopardise relations between the two countries.

“Since the beginning I have expressed openly, perhaps among the only ones, that the fee first 10 per cent and then 100 per cent -- assigned by the Haradinaj Government -- had no economic reasoning but was set to protect against failures, especially in foreign policy. Serbia's president, Vuciq, awarded the fee the dimension of conditioning the dialogue. So when the possibility of deals with territory between the two presidents -- the Serbian and Kosovo -- emerged, the tariff slipped into the levering of this harmful dialogue. Then I supported former Prime Minister Haradinaj for the continuation of the fee.

Following last year's European Commission elections, and especially after the US's very active engagement with President Trump's special representative, Ambassador Grenelli, the tariff remains objectively only as a relic, which is serving Serbia as a victim in the international arena and some in Kosovo as the only tool of a unstable political cause. No one is convinced that Kosovo forces Serbia to recognise it through the fee.

But the overwhelming majority are convinced that the US, in the first place, and the EU can convince Serbia through the process of dialogue, to recognise the state of Kosovo. I want to believe that tomorrow's Assembly of the Parliament will give support to the Government and Prime Minister Kurti to lift the tariff. Take it off like the United States are looking for. I am not sure that any of the parliamentary groups or deputies of the Parliament or government have found a stronger, more meritier and more dedicated partner than the US for Kosovo state and citizenship. Nor is a path more hopeful than European and Euro-Atlantic integration.

If anyone wavers, the LDK, its deputies and members of the government will support without reservation and with full confidence and conviction the immediate removal of the fee, and not only is it looking for our strategic partner The US, but we are convinced that this is in the interest of the state of Kosovo. If Serbia does not stop the campaign against Kosovo and avoid trade and economic barriers, the LDK remains committed to applying reciprocity measures after a period the Government accords with the US and the EU. IM”, Mustafa wrote on Sunday.