Uncertainly post-election: AAK PDK refuses to link coalition with VV

Bedri Hamza, who was candidate of PDK for prime minister, said this party would not enter any coalition that includes Prime Minister Albin Kurti's party, Skarred Radio Free Europe.

“We have major differences”, Hamza said at a news conference in Pristina on Monday.

They [Vetvendosje] want absolute power and do not have a programme. During the campaign, it also left the confrontation in television debates. They offended political opponents and citizens. They provoked hatred, while we united and co-operation”, Hamza added.

With over 95 percent of the votes counted, the Central Election Commission announced that the Vetevendosje Movement leads by about 41 percent, PDK with about 22%, The LDK by about 17% and AAK-Nisma by about 7%.

But to get the majority in the Assembly, a party needs at least 61 deputies from 120 the total.

Earlier, even AAK Chairman Ramush Haradinaj ruled out the coalition's possibility with Vetevendosje Movement, saying he prefers the creation of a government by opposition parties.

“We would be pleased to have co-operate with Albanian political subjects, to create the majority that is actually possible”, said Haradinaj, the AAK candidate for prime minister, at a press conference.

It is in my honor to assist an opposition government with Vetevendosje”, he stressed.

The chairman of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Lumir Abdixhiku, wrote on Facebook that the LDK expects the full counting of votes before it comes up with its political positions.

At this stage, we continue with the count of remaining votes, especially those on the stake. After the final count, the LDK will offer its own political positions”, Abdixhiku said.

He did not comment on Haradinaj's call for an opposition government. Similarly, PDK officials, who talked about REL, said they have not commented on his idea in the party.

Addressing supporters the previous night, Kurti, who served as prime minister from 2021, said his party would rule in the next four years, but without specifying how or in alliances with whom.

Despite victory in the February 9th elections, Vetevendosje suffered a loss of support for nearly 10%, compared to the 2021 elections.

Rhetman Pajarizi, professor at the Journalism Department at Pristina University, says Kurti is not very interested in making the government new.

“Kurti has been interested in preserving the outcome, but with more than 100,000 votes lost, it will hardly approach making government. I think that even the opposition has no unity to make the government”, says the pararizi of Radio Free Europe.

He adds that the country, “relatively, could go to early elections through some constitutional and legal acronyms -- delaying the constitution's constitutional and legal framework to the maximum, following the Certificate of results”.

February 9th elections in Kosovo were the first regular since declaring independence in 2008.

The participation of citizens in them was just over 40 percent.

The European Union welcomed the organisation of elections in, as it said, a calm atmosphere.