LDK on Crossroad: Neutrality Risking Party Future

It says: Shenoll Muharremi

No party competes to remain in opposition. The argument that “the people told us to stay in opposition” is false. What people vote for you to be in opposition, which voters? None.

People vote to be in government, to implement changes and transformations, as you have pledged. To fulfill the promises you gave them during the campaign. To go and look for votes intensively and at the end of saying “we don't want to govern or be part of any government, we want to stay in the opposition” is a bit of a betrayal of electorate and voters.

The LDK's stances pave the way for an LVV government and sabotage a plan for opposition parties to form the government. A real chaos. You cannot be a serious political party and generate such uncertainty. Keeping no side. Be co-operative and contradictory. Just seeing the best interest. Risking the future of the country and the party because you have no courage to make decisions and take a stand.

We only want the stable government” of the same time “we don't want the LV!” How is that possible? This is an impossible situation even theoretically unlogical. The stable government without LV doesn't exist, because that's what the electorate set up. So you don't want a stable government, you don't want a weak, strong, or competent government... you want a status quo. Fog. Uncertainty. Or you're willing, like Albin Kurti, “completely, or nothing”. The LDK is not like the LVV party of extremism, but a totally different party, deeper and more colourful, rational.

The LDK must reconsider its positions. What we heard last night has no logic or reason. It's okay to keep one side, either with LVV or with the opposition, but not holding any side is irresponsible. In the context that the country and the world are going through, this generates an institutional crisis and could jeopardise Kosovo's future. After all, this strategy does not ensure the party's growth, rather, risks its decline.

Also contempt of other opposition parties is an arrogant mistake. The PDK and AAK are not at all mistaken when they try to create a government without the LVV. This is completely legitimate and a reasonable political strategy. The (esthetic) rejection the LDK is making, especially PDK can avenge in the future. This party now doesn't even love LVV, nor does the PDK. So what do you want? Self in a self-centering and uncooperative way?

If the party's strategy is to remain in opposition for 10 years, this approach can be realised. Because the LDK may not have won first place in Kosovo for another 10 years with this strategy of meat or fish. The irony is that even when it wins, it will still have to co-operate with other parties, because it cannot create a single government. Aren't you learning from the case of LVV, which with 48 mandates of 42% has trouble creating governments? Why, then, do these attitudes that do not benefit the party?

The LDK in every scenario where it is offered the opportunity to run the government must accept it. This would make it from a loss “” relative to the absolute winner of the election. The third party, which failed to achieve the potential, would become the party with the most successful results.

If she continues to maintain such attitudes, she could lose even more tomorrow. These recent positions have paved the way for a stable LV government V- PDK that solves the president's knot. This means that the LDK may remain in opposition for another 4 years with this approach.

Moreover, the LDK could lose Pristina in local elections this year. It may also lose its own head, because people do not vote to remain neutral and aim at the opposition. People just don't believe you anymore. These positions, if they do not change, can create a crisis for the party and its management over the next 18 months, not known where they navigate the party then in a highly dynamic scene where LVV and PDK are currently the dominant force.