Thaçi to schedule constitutive session after July 24 meeting
(RTK)
President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi has decided to welcome all parliamentary political entities next week, in order to discuss the situation following June 11 early elections, RTK portal reported.
Prior to calling the constitutive Assembly session, President Thaçi has decided to invite on Monday, 24th July, the entire political spectrum in the country. He will receive them in a consultative meeting. This was confirmed to RTK by Ardian Arifaj, advisor to the President.
Asked when it is expected that the President will call the constitutive Assembly session and assign the mandate for constituting government, Arifaj said that everything is expected to happen within the framework of constitutional timelines and after consultation with political parties.
According to Arifaj, invitations for a consultative meeting with political parties have already been prepared, and they should be sent to them.
Internationals might intervene in forming institutions
(TV21)
While President Thaçi still has not taken any decision to call the constitutive Assembly session, political experts call for this session to be scheduled as soon as possible. According to Vigan Qorolli, professor of International Law, prolongation in constituting institutions leaves room for intervention by internationals. They believe that if the parties do not reach any agreement by 8th August, the international community’s namely Quint intervention will become necessary, the effect of which will be the incapability of Kosovo leaders to reach agreement.
“And then we know what the consequence of Quint intervention will be: Kosovo politicians will forget their own words, and they will be forced to join a government, as it happened in 2014, 2011, and earlier,” Mr Qorolli said.
On the other hand, Ramush Tahiri, political analyst, believes that Quint intervention is unnecessary; nevertheless, he highlights that prolongation of the constitutive Assembly session by the President is meaningless.
Explaining the reasons why President Thaçi still is not calling the constitutive session, Mr Qorolli said that it is happening because Ramush Haradinaj does not have sufficient number of votes and because of the lack of consensus with minority parties in sharing power.
Ramush Tahiri criticises PAN coalition for a lack of internal harmonisation of issues.
VV and LDK discuss approximation of positions for constituting Government
(KTV)
While the President continues to prolong calling of the Assembly’s constitutive session, Vetëvendosje and the Democratic League of Kosovo are using this time for something else.
The two political entities are continuing their meetings in the effort to harmonise their programs for constituting Government.
Dardan Sejdiu, who was part of the second meeting together with the party leader, Visar Ymeri, and the two LDK deputy chairmen Avdullah Hoti and Lutfi Haziri, says that both parties are willing for co-operation.
Sejdiu says that Albin Kurti will lead the next government, and added that this also depends on the failure of PAN coalition to constitute the Government.
LDK deputy chairman Lutfi Haziri says that regardless of programmatic differences with Vetëvendosje, positions have been approximated.
According to Artan Murati of Kosovo Democratic Institute (KDI), the reason why the session is not called might also be due to lack of numbers by PAN coalition.
Vetëvendosje and LDK have opposed any possibility of co-operation with PAN Coalition, as long as PDK will be part of it.
Hoxhaj: Government should comprise PDK, AAK, Nisma, and some individual MPs
(RTK1)
PDK vice chairman and caretaker Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj said that the future governing coalition should comprise PDK, AAK, Nisma, and some possible MP, who should support forming of institutions along with minorities.
Hoxhaj rules out the possibility of a new crisis in forming new government, and he expects that upon constituting its institutions, Kosovo will enter important decision-making processes, starting from border demarcation with Montenegro up to conclusion of dialogue with Serbia.
Kusari-Lila: PAN doesn’t have sufficient votes
(RTK1)
The Alternativa leader Mimoza Kusari-Lila said that the PDK-AAK-Nisma (PAN) coalition does not have sufficient votes, not even to elect the Assembly Speaker.
Ms Kusari-Lila stated to RTK’s Image show that Ramush Haradinaj will be burnt out in the coalition with PDK.
“Definitely, this is a political fiasco for PDK as the initiator of the early elections, namely they voted for dissolving their own government. They had far more MPs; they had the Assembly Speaker, and many other positions in the Government, whereas now they are not even able to have their Assembly Speaker which they are entitled to by the Constitution as the winning coalition. This is related to the Party’s leadership,” Kusari-Lila said.
Banks calls for sooner establishment of new institutions
(Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
Stephen Banks, the US Acting Deputy Ambassador to Kosovo, called on political party leaders not to delay with establishment of new institutions.
In a meeting that Banks had with leaders of Nisma për Kosovën, which are part of PAN coalition, he said that sooner establishment of new institutions is more than necessary for Kosovo.
A press release issued says that the President of the National Council of Nisma, Jakup Krasniqi, presented their views for formation of institutions in order to go on with the process of reforms as far as the European agenda of Kosovo is concerned.
Delawie demands greater support for family members of missing persons
(KTV)
The US Ambassador to Kosovo, Greg Delawie, visited the Missing Persons Family Resource Centre.
In a Twitter post, Delawie said everyone has the right to know about the fate of their loved ones. He also demanded greater support for these families.
“Visited Missing Persons Family Resource Center- everyone has the right to learn fate of loved ones. All must do more to support this effort,” Delawie wrote in Twitter.
Family members of the missing persons have constantly requested greater work by institutions to shed light on the fate of missing persons.
