Arbër Rexhaj, a deputy of the Vetëvendosje Movement, said that his political entity had made the final compromise to overcome the deadlock over the constitution of the Assembly. He called on the other parties to present their candidates for deputy speakers so that the process of establishing the institutions could continue.
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Speaking before the resumption of the constitutive session, Rexhaj said that constituting the Assembly without a political agreement would lead the country toward new elections.
According to him, a meeting of the Assembly presidency had been held the previous day, while LVV had already made its final compromise. Rexhaj stressed that the other parties should come forward with their proposed names so that the process could move ahead.
The LVV deputy was also asked about the possibility of a meeting between Albin Kurti, Bedri Hamza and Lumir Abdixhiku, but he provided no concrete details on whether such a meeting would take place.
Rexhaj denied that LVV was working to send the country to new elections. He said that acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti had made efforts to establish communication with the opposition parties in order to overcome the situation.
He said that Kurti was constantly sending messages to party representatives and that there had been attempts to communicate with the Democratic Party of Kosovo and the Democratic League of Kosovo. As for the Alliance, Rexhaj said he was not sure, but believed that such efforts had been made.
According to Rexhaj, the other parties had had the opportunity to unblock the process by changing the names proposed for deputy speakers. He said that the Assembly could easily have been constituted two days earlier, since the decision had been in their hands.
Rexhaj added that, if this was a political strategy related to the constitution of the Assembly and the date on which the process would end, the other parties had had the opportunity to constitute the Assembly two days earlier. According to him, changing the proposed names would have made it possible to constitute the Assembly 48 hours earlier.
He described the political agreement with the Democratic League of Kosovo as valid, despite statements by six deputies from that party that they would not take part in the vote.
Rexhaj reiterated that constituting the Assembly without a political agreement would steer the country toward elections. However, according to him, there is now a valid political agreement with the Democratic League of Kosovo, while the position of its 6 deputies not to participate and not to vote remains a matter for them.
Under these circumstances, he said, there was a basis for calling a session, continuing the constitution of the Assembly and establishing the institutions.
