The Light of Governments: Dialogue, combating crime and corruption, economic development- challenges that São made nothing

Kosovo will face a host of challenges during 2021, and they will start as early as the beginning of the year, following the extraordinary parliamentary elections, which are expected to be announced soon, assess connoisseurs of political developments Donika Emini and Agon Maliqi.

According to them, the country's new government, which is expected to come out after these elections, will inherit the challenges and problems the country has, with which the three preliminary governments, both in the internal and external, have faced.

The government, led by Ramush Haradinaj, fell after his resignation in August 2019. The government, led by Albin Kurti, collapsed following the no-confidence motion at the end of March 2020. Recently, Kosovo's Constitutional Court, on 21 December, 2020, declared the government's vote led by Avdullah Hoti invalid.

The Challenge for Government Creation, Economic Rise, Foreign Policy

Donika Emine, executive director of the CaviKos Platform, tells Radio Free Europe that the problems facing the past three governments continue to be challenges, as are the fight against corruption and organised crime, economic development, but also dialogue with Serbia. For more, these problems have added to the country's economic recovery from the consequences of the coronary pandemic, as well as to the provision of vaccines against COVID-19, which causes the coronary.

But to address all problems, she says, the country will initially need the formation of the new government immediately after the elections, which, according to her, will be a separate challenge. The timing of the government's formation, according to Emin, holds Kosovo's internal functioning not only in limbo, but also dialogue with Serbia.

The new government, to be created, can be a challenge because of the internal polarisation of the political elite in Kosovo. I don't remember the most extreme polarization of the political elite. This has been noted since March, when the (Alb) Kurti government collapsed. Then this went on and we had fragmented opposition, but we also had coalition partners who were fragmented and who had discussed and worked in completely opposite directions from each other. With all this consistings, it will be a problem to form the future coalition, or even the entire election process will be challenging”, Emini said.

Choices Without Red Lines

She has added that the challenge of forming the new government would complicate even more the issue of electing the country's president, which would clash but also force parties that will fight for power.

Political parties, which have so far been part of the Kosovo Assembly, have also consistently debated, but have also argued about ways to ease the economic and social consequences that have caused the country to face the pandemic of Coronavirus. Pandemia and scandal of over twom euros

Analyst Agon Maliqi, in a conversation with Radio Free Europe, says that regardless of who will lead the country, the face will face this very challenge, but also the country's foreign policy, meaning dialogue with Serbia.

I think that urgent, above all, is the economic crisis. A great energy in the economy is needed to overturn the dynamic and psychology of recession. It's all over. Then, at the moment that a kind of stabilisation of the economy is achieved, although I doubt there will be a certainty that in the agenda it will come to us -- although not immediately -- the issue of dialogue with Serbia -- and let us call it even more broadly -- the prospect of the Balkans and Kosovo in the new architecture of the Balkans”, Maliqi stressed.

Developments in Brussels dialogue, defining for Kosovo development

Analyst Emini says that although dialogue, according to her, is the main cause of the collapse of Albin Kurti's preliminary government. But since then, as she emphasises, no progress has been seen in this process conducted in Brussels, except to sign the agreement on normalising economic relations between Kosovo and Serbia, on 4 September in Washington.

The process of dialogue in Brussels, according to Emin, despite the push that could potentially give Joe Biden's election to president of the United States, will be a challenge, because the main problem, which has been discussed over the past six months, is the issue of the Association of Serb majority municipalities.

So, the new government expects a big question that ties to association. If the new prime minister and the new government cannot address this issue and dialogue is blocked in Brussels, that would also mean blocking Kosovo's development as a state, in and out. It is well known that dialogue has a harmful impact, not only on the way Kosovo is seen from outside, but also on how it works within”, Emini praised.

Periodic Dialogue

Analyst Maliqi expresses the view that the European perspective for the Balkan region has waned and the administration of US President Biden, along with the EU, can seek intermediate regional market-type solutions. According to him, Kosovo will immediately face such a challenge, and, as he says, Kosovo should see that perhaps as an opportunity to resolve the issue with Serbia. He estimates that one of the main reasons why the problem has become impossible through dialogue in Brussels is the fact that Serbia has no European perspective in the short term.

“And while we know that Kosovo cannot, within, for any kind of compromise, which Serbia demands from Kosovo. So, perhaps this regional market framework, in co-operation with allies, can be used as a tool for forcing Serbia to recognise Kosovo or its international unblocking. Kosovo will face this challenge, but it must be proactive in defining this regional initiative. It will not be possible to do so with chaotic or chaotic governance that it has been so far, but neither with popular nor rejection of Western allies”, Maliqi said.

Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani's post has already held discussions with political parties to set the date for holding elections, which should be held no later than 40 days from the day of their proclamation.

Both connoisseurs of political developments, Emini and Maliqi, have estimated that to face the challenges awaiting Kosovo during 2021, the next government to emerge after early parliamentary elections must have political capital, meaning sufficient votes in the Kosovo Assembly and sufficient political will to push ahead with the processes. This political capital, according to them, has so far been lacking in three governments in the past two years. As they have noted, if the country again has a fragile government, as well as the opposition, which allows no room for reaching political consensus on important issues, then the country will not be able to face any of the major challenges ahead.