Vetevendosje’s candidate for Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, told Belgrade-based Danas daily newspaper that President Hashim Thaci, following the debacle that his party suffered in the parliamentary elections, “is trying to compensate the lack of civic legitimacy from below and international legitimacy from above”. Commenting on the latest informal meeting between Thaci and his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, in Brussels, Kurti said the two leaders did not really represent Kosovo and Serbia as much they represented their brothers who have become very rich in the Balkans mafia. Commenting on a new government of Kosovo and the possibility of Ramush Haradinaj becoming Prime Minister, Kurti said that if the new majority in parliament will depend on the Serbian List, “consequently from Vucic”, then the new government will have two capitals, Pristina and Belgrade, and that this would plunge Kosovo into a deep political crisis. “The Serbian List is the stretched hand of the Serbian government and it represents more Belgrade than Serbs living in Kosovo. The Serbian List functions as Belgrade’s embassy in Kosovo and not as politicians that represent Serbs in Kosovo’s institutions,” Kurti said. He also said that dialogue with Belgrade in Brussels so far has set no conditions for Serbia, “but has rather focused on Kosovo’s internal affairs”. “This is why the result cannot be fair. Why did not they then discuss about Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja too. In principle, we are not against dialogue, but we are against dialogue without principles. This has turned Kosovo into a topic whose agenda is determined by Serbia”. Asked if he would be willing to visit Belgrade if he becomes Prime Minister, Kurti said he is young to say never “but also mature enough to expect any benefit from this”.
Kurti: Thaci and Vucic, brothers in the Balkans mafia (Koha/Danas)
- Published: 7 years ago on 04/07/2017
- By: OSCPA F
- Last Modified: July 4, 2017 @ 1:46 pm
- Filed Under: Articles from Kosovo media
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