Vetevendosje says it will try to stop government collapse vote

But the problem remains to keep this session under circumstances created with COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization rules, on which health institutions in Kosovo are being brought, as a preventative measure against the spread of the virus, do not predict human gatherings.

Valbon Krasniqi, infected at the Infectious Clinic, told Free Europe Radio that they have already given recommendations for all Kosovo citizens to take care in terms of maintaining social distance to prevent further spread of infection and that rules apply to all.

We have repeatedly called on to maintain social distance, and now we have seen that different institutions, as well as private businesses, have applied this rule. I think there may be other forms of holding such meetings, possibly keeping electronic or videoconferencing in shape, so I believe government institutions will take these” into account, Krasniqi says.

The LDK's motion vote on the collapse of the government, according to Kosovo Assembly Vice President Arberie Nagavci, deputy of the Vetevendosje Movement, cannot be held.

Nagavci, in a proposal for Radio Free Europe, said that any request to gather the assembly implies breaking instructions provided by the Public Health Institute and health experts.

“To hold the session means we have to be more than 150 people in the hall who don't meet the conditions and distance is small and that's full responsibility. I will use all capacities so that no such thing can happen, the more for such a requirement at this time of crisis, the country will remain without institutions”, she said.

“I hope no such motion or request comes. We will use legal ways to be fair even to citizens, since gathering 150 people is dangerous to the spread of the COVID-19”, Nagavci said.

Calling a session requires the collection of 40 signatures, while to approve this motion, the vote of more than half of MPs from 120 MPs is required as much as the Kosovo Assembly does.

The motion initiated by the Democratic League of Kosovo for distrust of the government comes after Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti dismissed Interior Minister Agim Veliun (LDK) from office after he came out in favour of Kosovo President Hashim Thaci's decree for declaring the state of emergency -- a move that was rejected by Prime Minister Kurti.

This no-confidence motion against the Kurti Government is supported by opposition parties, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo and the Social Democrat Initiative.

In support of the motion, the Democratic League Parliamentary Group has also emerged but has shown no complete unity in this decision.

But, differing from the LDK parliamentary group for initiating the no-confidence motion against the Kurti government has had Kosovo Parliament Speaker and LDK deputy chairman Vjosa Osmani and three other MPs.