KTV’s Editor-in-Chief Adriatik Kelmendi writes in his weekly column for the paper that early general elections are increasingly being seen as an option for overcoming the current political crisis but the opposition parties – Vetevendosje, Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) – “are either unable or don’t want to realize that the majority of the citizens are not at all bothered with whether certain individuals from one party will be replaced in elections with individuals from another one.” What the people want to see, according to Kelmendi, is a positive change in the way Kosovo is being governed. “Unfortunately, the opposition is failing to deliver on this hope,” he writes. Kelmendi argues that what the opposition has managed to do so far is to simply point a finger where the government is wrong but has actually produced no solution as to how they would do better in their position. “All we’ve heard from them [the opposition] in 2015 and now are words. Only words.” In addition, according to Kelmendi, the indecisiveness of the opposition parties on whether to run in the next elections under one ballot is turning into a “bizarre farce” and even insulting to the citizens of Kosovo. Not only would the opposition parties have to make up their minds to run together in elections or not but it is the last chance for them to present a joint governing platform and concrete ideas addressing people’s main concerns and which go far beyond the agreement on the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities and the border demarcation with Montenegro. The failure to do so means that, just like the ruling coalition, the opposition parties are not at all interested in the well-being of the people of Kosovo, concludes Kelmendi.
Okay, we should hold elections. Then what? (Koha Ditore)
- Published: 8 years ago on 04/02/2016
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- Last Modified: February 4, 2016 @ 2:39 pm
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