Rashiq calls for a full agreement on the new institutions in order to avoid blockages

Acting Minister for Communities and Returns Nenad Rashiq has called on political parties to ensure that the establishment of the new institutions is carried out as a single package, so that no room is created for blockages.

He stressed that he will ask the Vetëvendosje Movement to use all possible initiatives to secure agreement with political parties, especially regarding the election of the president.

“First, in this case, I will ask the prime minister, or Vetëvendosje, to use every form of initiative that can bring us to cooperation, especially with the Albanian parties regarding the selection of the president, because I consider this to be the key, so to speak, or a potentially weak point in this whole process we now have after the elections,” Rashiq said.

According to Rashiq, political entities must act in a way that prevents the country from once again facing a lost year as a result of a political crisis.

“I place great trust in the strategic assessments made by the European Union. Since we acknowledge that the EU is an unavoidable goal, the only goal that all of us politicians and all systems in the Balkans should have, then their words, when they said that 2025 had been a lost year, personally affected me, because I do not want us as institutions to have lost years because of political crises. Therefore, let us avoid the next assessment that 2026 is also considered a lost year,” he declared.

He appealed to the parties to set aside clashes and enter into cooperation, assessing that there would be no justification for failing to form the institutions.

“To tell you the truth, if there is no solution now, then we politicians truly need a special law, a special commission, where a psychiatrist should chair the commission. There really is no other explanation, because for me this would personally be a failure of the system I have believed in for 20 years now,” Rashiq said.