New elections in Kosovo on 28 May or 04 June
(Klan Kosova)
Kosovars are expected to vote on early elections at the end of next month, or at the beginning of the following 30-days.
Klan Kosova learns that 28 May or 04 June are the dates when citizens are believed to head to the electoral boxes to express their political preferences.
Another important event will precede this important development for the country. It has to do with breaking of the current governing coalition.
Sources of this TV station say that PDK chairman, Kadri Veseli, and the LDK chairman Isa Mustafa will quit their cooperation on 25 April. A day earlier, namely on 24 April, the issue of Demarcation is expected to be on the agenda of works of the Assembly of Kosovo, since the Presidency will decide so during this week, Klan Kosova reported.
The result of voting of the Agreement on the border with Montenegro does not predetermine the coalition’s fate, which, as the Klan Kosova source says, is expected to be broken immediately, a day after. This also means the immediate dissolving of the Assembly.
The moment that coalition breaking will be made public, the issue of setting the date for early elections will be passed to the President. The latter, according to the provisions, sets the date of new elections, which, in the farthest option must be 45 days after Assembly’s dissolution.
While mathematical calculations say that in case coalition is broken on 25 April then elections must be held the latest until Sunday 04 June, since any other later date is beyond the constitutional frameworks on early national voting.
A rather preferred date than this, as Klan Kosova was told, is the last Sunday of May, that is 28 May.
Assembly ignores President Thaçi’s request for KSF
(KTV&TV21)
The Assembly of Kosovo has ignored President Hashim Thaçi by proceeding the Law on Kosovo Security Force (KSF) despite the order for not proceeding this Law until Srpska List is persuaded for constitutional changes.
Assembly Secretary, Ismet Krasniqi, confirmed to TV21 that the Law has been proceeded by the Assembly Presidency on Friday’s meeting.
On the other hand, Chairman of the Assembly Security Committee, Daut Haradinaj, says that they still have not received this Law.
However, monitor of Assembly’s work, Albert Krasniqi, says that the request of President Thaçi for stopping the Law on Army is a violation of Assembly’s regulation.
In the meantime, KTV reported that Ministry of KSF has added 37 amendments to the draft law that gives military mandate to the Kosovo Security Force.
Differences between PDK and LDK regarding Demarcation
(RTK1&KTV)
Coalition partners have differences regarding the proceeding of the Draft Law on Ratification of the Demarcation Agreement with Montenegro. Lacking agreement by which PDK and LDK pledge that they will secure votes within their respective caucuses, Government is reluctant to submit this draft law to the legislative body.
Koha Ditore newspaper sources say that there are votes against from both parties, but PDK is presenting the situation as LDK MPs are the ones who are entirely guilty of this.
According to newspaper sources, this is being done because of the fear that this issue might cause divisions within PDK and consequently loss of votes in the future elections.
In the meantime, Prime Minister Isa Mustafa has once again called on MPs to surpass it for the sake of visa liberalization, KTV reported.
In a Facebook post, indirectly and without mentioning Demarcation, PM Mustafa said that blockade is happening by an unsteady political cause.
“We have been blocked by the EU by a senseless condition, same as we have been blocked by ourselves with an unstable political cause, but also harmful for country’s perspective. In a way we can understand prejudices of some European bureaucrats for setting conditions that they did not set to others, but we should find force to surpass it in order to open the European path, the one of economic and cultural perspective,” Mustafa wrote.
In the meantime, political analyst Berat Buzhala told RTK1 that Prime Minister cannot blame EU for something a duty he has to complete. Buzhala said that ‘these cries of Prime Minister cannot change the EU criterion for visa liberalisation.”
The other political analyst, Besa Luzha, also considers unreasonable the blaming of EU by Prime Minister for the topic that the governing coalition is responsible.
Reçica: If Demarcation does not pass, Kosovo can enter elections
(TV21)
PDK MP Elmi Reçica stated that Kosovo can enter early elections if the Agreement on Demarcation will not be passed at the Assembly.
Reçica also said that PDK is always ready to enter election for the sake of Kosovo citizens’ interest.
Nisma confident that they will get signatures for no confidence motion
(TV21)
Nisma për Kosovën stated that they have secured majority of votes from the opposition MPs for their no confidence motion against the Government, while they now need only 10 more signatures from the ruling MPs for this motion to be proceeded further.
Nisma’s MP, Haxhi Shala, says he is convinced that the motion will be sent to the Assembly Presidency this week since, as he says, they have already secured a number of MPs of the ruling parties, and it has only remained on them to sign it.
Thaçi reiterates genocide lawsuit against Serbia
(Most monitored broadcasters, TV21)
Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi has once again reiterated the idea of lawsuit against Serbia for genocide in Kosovo, adding that the state of Kosovo will never forget Serbian crimes.
He stated this on Monday remembering the Poklek massacre of Drenica, where 54 people were murdered and massacred.
On the same day, Serbs also killed 24 more Albanians in Çikatovë e Vjetër village, TV21 reported.
