Some parties ready for elections, but how many are prepared for campaigning?

The Central Election Commission (KQZ) from February 8th has launched all procedures for holding early elections, which are scheduled for February 14th.

Also, some of the political parties in the country are making their preparations for the election campaign. From the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), which the elections aim to win with Enver Hoxhaj at the helm, have said they are making the necessary preparations.

“The PDK will also participate in these elections. The CEC has our records, when it is the legal deadline to apply for certificate, we will apply”.

“We are in the preparation phase of the branch, subsets, and are compiled the list for the following days. We're introducing our program. We have started with the involvement of the diaspora, Albanians in the Presevo Valley, youth, we will also continue to have in our programme in all areas such as the economy, education, health and others, which from Monday we will expand”, said Betim Joshi, Chief of Election Staff in PDK.

While this Sunday, the Vetevendosje Movement has announced domestic elections for candidates for MPs. From the media office on this political subject have said their election campaign will be realised by adapting to circumstances caused by the pandemic COVID-19.

It's like, for many things, from our everyday to our public organization, we've had to and we continue to be forced to adapt to these circumstances. Consequently, the February 14th election campaign will be held within the same logic. The Vetevendosje movement will respect the rules and recommendations of the Institute of Public Health, laws that have emerged from the Parliament, but other good practices”.

Moreover, we already have a preliminary experience of organising the election campaign from local elections in Besiana, which was the first since the beginning of the pandemic. That experience will serve us much in the organizational sense and management of situations”, the VV's response says.

The LDK has already announced that in the new elections it will compete with Avdullah Hoti, who is also prime minister in office.

During yesterday, the leadership of this subject has held a co-ordination meeting for preparation for new elections.

LDK Deputy Chairman Lutfi Haziri has declared that they are willing to meet all legal conditions to come up with a list in time.

” Finalized the technical part of the headquarters, made divisions for electoral areas. We are willing to meet the constitutional legal conditions even tomorrow, so that in legal terms the names of the LDK can be cleared of”, Haziri said.

Even the Social Democrat Initiative will be part of these elections, Andrew Shala of this party has indicated they are ready for the election campaign.

“We are extremely well, we are very well prepared, we are making preparations for this” campaign.

Clankosova.tv has also contacted representatives of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), who have said they will appear at a media conference tomorrow and talk about all the details about their body about the elections.

While Vjosa Osmani's initiative, the presidential taskmaker, has given no answers about how far they have come in terms of preparing the election campaign.

Osmani visited several Kosovo cities earlier, where he met with citizens.

Klankosova.tv has tried to contact even AKR representatives, but they have been peaceful. From this party reportedly will make a coalition for the LDK, Deputy Chairman Lutfi Haziri, has said talks with the AKR are continuing.

”Ende hasn't finished anything. We're in negotiations. The LDK chairman has authorisations along with the nominated for prime minister to carry out” meetings.

” represented within a joint LDK list. For themselves, they're in the negotiations, I wouldn't like to comment any further. But I believe that there will be talks that by the middle of next week must be completed”, he said before the media yesterday.

This year will be different in terms of campaign implementation, as Kosovo is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is unable to gather large numbers of people in an environment.

According to the recent decision by the Ministry of Health in Kosovo, “prevents the collection of citizens in number of more than 4 people in public squares, parks, public places, winter recreating centres and similar ones, except allowed with this decision”.