The process of establishing Kosovo’s new institutions remains stalled by the political deadlock, while efforts to reach an agreement between the Vetëvendosje Movement and the Democratic League of Kosovo continue to be the focus of attention.
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Albulena Haxhiu, in her capacity as acting president, has provided further details about the discussions between LVV and LDK. According to her, several options for overcoming the situation have been considered during the meetings, but the parties have yet to reach an agreement on forming the institutions.
Agim Aliçkaj, an Albanian activist in the United States, spoke to “Bota sot” about these developments. He considers the political situation in Kosovo extremely absurd and says that, unfortunately, he sees no solution to the deadlock on the horizon.
Aliçkaj believes that citizens are tired of voting for Albin Kurti as prime minister without giving him the opportunity to govern. According to him, PDK, LDK and the Alliance, as the losers of the elections, are using Ahtisaari’s “compromise” Constitution to keep the state indefinitely deadlocked.
In his view, the hostile Srpska List organization is benefiting from this situation. He describes it as a structure created and mobilized solely to destabilize and destroy the state of Kosovo. Aliçkaj claims that it is openly and directly controlled by the racist and hegemonic Serbian regime.
He also criticized European diplomats, saying that instead of asking the opposition to end its blockades, they have focused on strengthening this list and are exerting pressure for hostile prosecutors to be reinstated. According to Aliçkaj, the diplomats call for laws and rules to be respected on the one hand, while on the other they pressure the caretaker government to violate the law in the interests of the Serbian regime in Belgrade.
Addressing the possibility of an agreement between LVV and LDK on establishing the institutions, Aliçkaj said that the talks launched after the June elections were initially conducted seriously and raised hopes among citizens that a political agreement could be reached this time.
He described President Albulena Haxhiu’s statements about these discussions as somewhat optimistic, but added that it remains to be seen what will happen in the coming days. However, because of serious divisions within LDK, he believes that reaching an agreement between the two parties will be very difficult.
According to him, the main obstacle concerns the election of the President, a process that requires a quorum of two-thirds of the members of parliament. Aliçkaj described this requirement as the result of a mistaken and senseless ruling by Kosovo’s Constitutional Court, while saying that the chances of LDK securing the necessary 18 votes are very slim.
The activist warned that a complete boycott of the vote by LDK lawmakers would demonstrate, in his view, that the party has still not freed itself from the influence of Kosovo’s oligarchs and their paid friends in America.
If LDK genuinely cares about the state and does not want to bear responsibility for sending the country to another election, Aliçkaj believes it should provide as many votes as it can, even without joining a coalition. In such a scenario, responsibility would shift to PDK and the Alliance.
He said that lawmakers from these two parties would be committing a serious breach of their duties if they did not remain at their workplaces in Parliament during the vote for President. According to him, in that case they would continue to bear primary responsibility for blocking the state.
Aliçkaj also commented on Alliance leader Ardian Gjini’s statement that the party would surprise everyone by increasing its vote in new elections. He called the claim naive and baseless, saying that Gjini is among those who hope to reap a harvest without sowing anything.
According to him, the Alliance leader is signaling premeditated blockades devised according to a specific plan. Aliçkaj said that such behavior harms the state and that Gjini’s party does not deserve to cross the electoral threshold.
He also criticized PDK, which he described as having been deceived by the Serbian lobbyist Grenell and the pro-Serbian Edi Rama. According to Aliçkaj, the party has openly positioned itself in favor of taking the country to elections, despite Kurti’s proposal, in the hope that its leaders will be released from The Hague and return to Kosovo with “pockets full of votes.” He questioned where they would find those votes, even if they were released.
Analyzing the developments as a whole, Aliçkaj concluded that the parties that lost the most recent elections are showing no interest in resolving the deadlock. According to him, they are merely seeking excuses to prolong the state’s paralysis indefinitely, hoping that Albin Kurti will leave government and politics.
He considers that goal unattainable, emphasizing that citizens cannot be deceived and know who is responsible for the situation. In his assessment, the opposition’s actions are not harming Kurti, but only the state.
Aliçkaj said that the opposition’s own senseless conduct is determining and prolonging Kurti’s time in office. He added that the government continues to operate with reduced powers, which also means less responsibility for the overall functioning of the state.
According to him, if Kurti were allowed to govern normally, the opposition would have more realistic grounds on which to criticize him. This would also create the conditions for it to secure a better position in the next elections.
In conclusion, Aliçkaj said that citizens expect Kurti and his coalition to be constructive and open, and to present compromise proposals, just as they did before the June 7 elections. According to him, the candidate for President should be nonpartisan, capable and internationally experienced.
He stressed that if the parties want to continue to exist and Kosovo is to have a functioning state, they must understand that the governing mandate belongs to Prime Minister Kurti, while the Presidency belongs to the people. Aliçkaj said that this is the will clearly expressed by the citizens and that, for wise politicians, the solution is very simple.
“Whoever violates the will of the people tramples on the centuries-long resistance, the liberation war, and the blood of the heroes and all the victims of the Serbian genocide,” Agim Aliçkaj concluded for “Bota sot.”
