El País: Kosovo election outcome complicates dialogue with Serbia

The political programme, with which nationalist left formation, Vetevendosje won the legislative elections in Kosovo last Sunday speaks strongly of fighting corruption, justice, dealing with unemployment... 50 pages affecting many of Kosovo's daily problems, which gave it 48.2% of the vote, but in which the real elephant in the room is not mentioned any time: dialogue with Serbia, essential to unblock the current deadlock. Belgrade maintains the claim for its former province, while 193 UN nations have been divided almost half of those who recognise the independence that Kosovo unilaterally declared in 2008 and those who do not recognise, such as Spain, writes today the largest Spanish newspaper, El País, broadcasts the newspaper Express.

The case is very simple. As in the chains of the domino, an agreement would bring stability to the region and would open Pristina the doors of universal recognition and membership in NATO and the United Nations (which it has not even applied, because he knows that two permanent members of the Security Council, China and Russia would veto) and potentially and in a future that looks distant even in the European Union.

Vetevendosje leader and the next possible prime minister, Albin Kurti, has a long history, first as activists and later as politician, actions and critical statements to dialogue with Serbia, in which the EU has been mediating since 2011. Indeed, Kurt was unable to run for a seat in this election, because he was convicted of issuing a gas bomb in Parliament in 2015 in protest against the two voting agreements, one of which increased the autonomy of Kosovo's majority Serb municipalities. The decision would not prevent it, however, from leading the government if it achieves the necessary support.