Agim Veliu refuses his nomination as deputy candidate: I'm not leaving LDK, but I'm not allowed to use it

He has said they do not know which union he participated in, but said his candidacy this time was made for the president's political survival.

So Veliu rejected his nomination for deputy, saying he would not be part.

Full Posting:

Dear members, activists and sympathies of the Democratic League of Kosovo,

I feel the moral, human, and political obligation to thank each of you for your faith, sacrifice, and endurance. The LDK's over the years.

This time I don't want to talk about our common political journey for more than three and a half decades. Not for the big challenges and successes of the unbroken LDK raid and Rgovism in Llap until five years ago.

I don't even want to talk chronologically about the shocks on me and the Podujevo branch itself in recent years by the current LDK leadership, which came to the party to manage, not to develop.

I don't want to remind you of the responsibility of leadership that produced great division and extreme polarization of membership. And it's not even mentioning successive election losses and drastic decline of the electorate in Llap and elsewhere in Kosovo.

I want to stop at the current party moment, which is being promoted as the “Great Union”, which is surprisingly involving all those who were tested and eliminated by the current leadership -- that is, the marginalised, the differential and unwanted -- became desirable.

I don't know which category of “Great Union” I do participate, but I do know that prior to the December 28th 2025 elections, I publicly expressed my will to be part of the candidate list for MPs, with the goal of mobising and unifying the electorate. But the head of the branch had also refused to discuss my candidacy, reasoning that it was “the decision of the chief (Lomir)” not to be part of the race.

And today the same mayor, with the boss's blessing, has proposed that I be on the candidate list for deputies. Without even contacting me or consulting me.

Now I don't know if I've changed, do they?

No. Neither I nor them.

Only strategies for their political survival have changed.

She also changed the motto, which she brought back to LDK from her five-year adventure to the leftist camp. She, along with Lumiri, fraud and great use, ambalized into “The great balance of rightist”.

For these reasons, with the deepest respect for honest LDK membership, I publicly declare that I refuse to be part of the candidate list for MPs in the June 7th elections.

I don't leave LDK, because it's part of my political life since its establishment. But, I refuse to be used and part of a project that removes the party from its institutional and statehood identity.

I am convinced that the LDK will be released from the mentality of political NGOs and will return to its historic role as the responsible state force.

The LDK is bigger than the men's Meskine interests.

God save the LDK!