Ferati: No Signatures Yet for LDK’s Extraordinary Assembly

The secretary of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Ilir Ferati, has announced that no signatures have yet been deposited at the party’s headquarters to call an extraordinary Assembly.

Ferati stressed that the news circulating about this initiative is not based on any official data and described them simply as speculation.

“In the reports of those portals, I did not notice any clear source of information. It all remains in the realm of assumptions. I am at the headquarters and there is nothing concrete, no submission of signatures and no official notice,” Ferati stated.

This statement comes after rumors that on July 14 the necessary signatures would be submitted to convene the LDK Assembly, where confidence in chairman Lumir Abdixhiku would be discussed.

Our newspaper reported last week that the mayor of Peja, Gazmend Muhaxheri, is leading this movement, traveling through LDK branches across the country to gather signatures of delegates seeking a confidence vote for Abdixhiku.

The call to dismiss the chairman stems from internal dissatisfaction with the party’s performance in the June 7 elections.

Initially, Abdixhiku was called upon to resign, but he described such a step as unacceptable.

In those elections, LDK secured only 16.69 percent of the votes, being represented by 18 deputies in the Assembly of Kosovo.

The party statute stipulates that the signatures of one-third of the Assembly members do not bring about the immediate dismissal of the leader, but simply pave the way for the formal raising of the confidence issue.

The LDK Assembly consists of 355 delegates elected by the local branches, including the current chairman Lumir Abdixhiku himself.

In January of this year, Abdixhiku survived a confidence motion in the party assembly, after a disappointing result in the December 28 elections of last year.