Ferati Denies Reported Agreement with VV, Calls It Propaganda

The Secretary-General of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Ilir Ferati, announced that the party is engaged in procedural and organisational preparations to hold an extraordinary assembly.

According to him, convening the assembly cannot necessarily be described as urgent, although the deadline for forming institutions imposes such a process.

“The LDK is dealing with procedural matters required under the statute of the Democratic League of Kosovo, as well as organisational work aimed at organising the Assembly as quickly and efficiently as possible, so that delegates can express their will following the Assembly’s call by the signatories who submitted their signatures yesterday. Now, I do not want to describe it as an urgent Assembly, but certainly the date for the constitution of the institutions imposes this on us, although it is the responsibility of the leading party to begin work and speed up those procedures. Otherwise, the parliamentary group exists, the deputies have been elected, and I guarantee that it is functional, taking into account the organisation of the LDK Assembly,” he said.

Ferati also dismissed reports published yesterday about an agreement reached between VV and the LDK, under which the LDK would receive three ministries and the post of parliamentary speaker.

He described the reports as propaganda and speculation unsupported by official sources.

“It is entirely propaganda, speculation at a poor level, especially at the time it emerged. Again, I stress: without a source for the information, without citing any representative or any official information from the LDK, it is speculation and it does not stand. Moreover, the chairman declared his positions yesterday through a video message and described the need to suspend negotiations with the Vetëvendosje Movement until our internal issues are resolved,” he said.

Speaking about the extraordinary assembly, Ferati stressed that it would not be competitive, but would serve as a confidence vote for Abdixhiku.

“The Assembly’s conveners have set out the request for which they called the Assembly. It is not a competitive Assembly; in practice, it is an Assembly for a confidence vote. It is not an Assembly where other candidacies can be announced, practically speaking, according to the call by the signatories who convened the Assembly,” he said.

So far, 151 signatures seeking the dismissal of chairman Abdixhiku have been submitted to the LDK secretariat.