After the recent elections, Vetevendosje movement appears to be the party with the biggest number of seats at the parliament.
Its candidate for Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, has started to call on the Democratic League of Kosovo to create the next government. However to the experienced analyst on the developments in Kosovo, perspective of an eventual government led by Albin Kurti, could cause constitutional problems. “Kosovo is a democracy, anybody who can get a majority in Parliament can be head of government, no question about that. However, it would have been in a way strange, being that Albin represents a movement which is against the Constitution. It demands unification with Albania or at least the option of unification with Albania, which is in contradiction with the Constitution of Kosovo,” he said.
Another hot point for the new government would be the issue of the continuance of the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia.
“A lot would depend on the character of that government being that Vetevendosje is against the dialogue while the others are in its favor and pursued it with great success. I would say something about the dialogue. Even though I was initially skeptical about the dialogue, it clearly helped on consolidation of Kosovo state and from that point of view, I regard it as a big plus,” Serwer said.
Despite a low perspective for EU membership, Serwer considers that Kosovo’s future goal should be NATO membership.
“It all depends on getting an army. I would hope for Kosovo to have an army that Serbia and Serbs would not have any concerns about it. This would have been an army more oriented toward international dislocations than territorial defense. And this is possible only if there is cooperation between Belgrade and Pristina, and this cooperation does not exist today.”
He further said that the United States and the European Union should engage on resolution of this matter. He does not expect for the United States to have the same military presence in Kosovo in five or ten years. However, he said that Kosovo and U.S. will always have a special relationship. “We want to see Kosovo develop as all the other ally states in Europe and this means to stand on its own feet, to have its growing economy and to join NATO and the EU,” Serwer said.
