“The zero-weight LV operation does not change the political situation”

33 thousand Kosovo citizens had signed a petition in 2014, which required the price of electricity not to be raised, but this petition at the plenary session was not voted on.

More than 200 thousand others had given signatures against the agreement to establish association of Serb majority municipalities and the one for demarcation of the border with Montenegro. After three years this agreement had been ratified, however, the petition had remained in the presidency's drawers.

Meanwhile, since the petition that the Vetevendosje Movement launched yesterday for holding elections, political connoisseurs are looking at it with zero weight.

The recogniser of the political circumstances, Rasim Aliaj, tells Kosovo Press that this petition can have political weight, but not changing the current situation.

As a change of any current position almost that zero weight, then why that petition is signed by the citizens of Kosovo, but as a political burden with changing the situation is almost insignificant because it has to do with a case involving the Constitutional Court's decision. And the Constitutional Court's decision as such should be applied whether citizens sign petition or not. In that sense, it goes against the petition as a burden in the face of a Constitutional decision, it can also be negligible”, Alija said.

According to him, this petition can be signed by number of IDs by persons who do not have the right to vote in the elections. This, according to him, shows the content of such petitions, which he says has not resulted in weight and change of situation.

Yesterday at a media conference, Vetevendosje Movement MP Lieburn Aliu had said that the old conjukture, those he said failed in the 6 October elections, joined when they saw that their people were “flying” from the boards.

According to Aliaj, the first LVV step will be to collect signatures by citizens for the petition with which new elections are required in the country.

Kosovo needs immediate elections to solve the political crisis and determine the way the country will take towards change and release from corruption, or towards the return of the corrupt. With this petition, we Kosovo citizens -- by establishing the signing and the number of IDs -- let us know that we want elections, and that only the government out of the elections has the legitimacy to govern”, Aliaj said.

Meanwhile, since Rasim Aliaj emphasises that LVV will resist its political actions, to oppose forming the government, but that, according to him, weighty names in this party are not part of the Kosovo Assembly.

“The LVV will play two roles, the role it has in Kosovo institutions that includes the Kosovo Assembly deputies from LVV, and their actions on the street or active them on the streets that are the forms of specific protests. We've seen a protest mode of LVV. I don't think it would even be tactical, but it's not political that their actions to oppose a future government would result in violent protests. It wouldn't be politically consistent, but it wouldn't even be Tactically under such circumstances where we still don't have the situation clear with the pandemic”, Aliaj said.

Otherwise, following the Constitutional decision to form the new government, the Vetevendosje Movement has announced the stance on moving to new elections as the only solution. This party has launched a petition that will last until June 30th, and so far it has been signed by 30,000 people.