“Two Bosniak majority municipalities” Conditions that communities ask Kurti

The Central Election Commission has started dealing with votes reached by the diaspora by mail. It's about the first process, the verification of 43.447 packaged ballots that can contain more than one vote. This process, however, is expected to take several days.

According to preliminary results, LVV has won 47.85% of the vote, which according to projections can be translated into 56 seats in the assembly. With diaspora and conditional votes, the forecasts are that LVV will reach a peak of 59 seats in the assembly, or two less than the majority needed to create the government itself.

LVV officials rule out any opportunity to invite any Albanian party for co-operation and say they will seek partners among non-party communities, excluding the Serbian List.

“We expect to have the necessary number of deputies for forming government and institutions. We will wait to see other non-Serb communities' deputies and look for the next steps of co-operation”, LVV spokesman Kryeziu told Radio Free Europe.

Political subjects of non-US communities in Kosovo have 20 seats in the Kosovo Assembly, which are guaranteed with the Constitutions. Ten are guaranteed for representatives of the Serb community in Kosovo.

Meanwhile, another ten seats are guaranteed for non-Serb communities. Of them three seats belong to the Bosniak community, two seats for the Turkish community, for representatives of the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities from one seat, as well as an additional seat for one of these communities, which wins mostly votes. One seat belongs to the Gorani community.

Given the current positions, Vetevendosje Movement candidate for prime minister Albin Kurti cannot count on all parties' votes from non-party communities, which are not from the Serb community. One of them has specific conditions to be part of the government. Adrijana Hodzic, who, based on the preliminary result, has come first from the Bosniak community, with its initiative “The United Comunities”, told Radio Free Europe, that there is a condition to be part of the government led by the Vetevendosje Movement. It is not clear yet whether Hodzic will win one or two seats in the assembly.

My request is to establish two municipalities with a majority Bosniak one. One in the Prizren region and the other in Pec”, Hodzic said, who has eventually won 6,379 votes.

“I can become part of any government, unless this condition of mine is approved and becomes part of the government programme”, Hodzic said.

The time has come to understand that the Bosniak community has become unfair, as they are the third community in Kosovo and there is no share in local self-government”, she added.

Her opponents have said that Hodzic, as well as a Roma party, the Roma Initiative, which for the first time appeared in these elections, is believed to be working for the Serbian List's interest and that this list helped them win votes.

Hodzic has called these charges groundless.

The losers always find a trigger. I admit I have been voted into Serbian citizens, but I have also been voted by Albanians, Turks and other communities. I've been voted out because people know me, I haven't changed”, Hodzic said.

The next stay lies in the Bosnian parties' coalition ? Rasim Demiri, chairman of this coalition, which itself has not been able to participate in the elections due to a penalty followed by a traffic fine, told Radio Free Europe, that they currently have no conditions and expect an invitation for co-governance.

We are willing to work with every government, even with Mr. Kurti, whom I wish for a great victory. If we have an invitation from Mr. Kurti to form government and for co-operation, we are ready”, Demiri, whose coalition, according to current projections, will have a seat from the Bosniak community in the assembly.

Willing for co-operation with the Vetevendosje-led government are also the Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo (KDTP), which according to the projections, will have the two seats of the assembly, guaranteed for this community. This is confirmed for Radio Free Europe, KDTP leader Fikrim Damka.

“We have always been ready to contribute to Kosovo's future. We're willing to contribute to this government as well, but we haven't had a meeting yet. For us, it's important that we agree on the common programs of LVV and KDTP. I think we can agree to the four-year governing programme”, Damka said.