Thaçi to run for Kosovo Prime Minister again
(All monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi said the date of general elections will be known soon, while he confirmed that he will run again for the Prime Minister’s post.
In an interview with Kosovapress Thaçi he expressed his dissatisfaction with electoral reform process; however, he said that everything that could be done was done.
Speaking about AAK’s confidence motion to bring the government down, Thaçi said that this is a right for any political party, adding that it was not the most appropriate time for it.
Thaçi also said that Kosovo does not a war crime tribunal, as the country has its functional justice system, including the EULEX Mission presence.
Civil society: Political leaders fear the race
(TV21&KTV)
If the Law on Elections will pass as it is now, where the vote for the political party will also go to its leader, than this will be a constitutional violation and with this the political party leader would be smuggled. This is what civil society representatives that were part of the work for changing the Law on Elections believe in. They say that leaders fear the competition and the fact that if they would undergo the race than they would see their real political weight in votes.
Ismet Kryeziu of Kosovo Democratic Institute (KDI) said that the elections and the Law on Elections should be an instrument of the civic will and not an instrument of certain political groups.
Meanwhile, Albert Krasniqi of KIPRED Institute said that political leaders want to bring the practices installed in their political parties to the Law on Elections. Krasniqi said that leaders in the political parties are elected without any counter candidate and with acclamation. He considers this practice non-democratic.
On the other hand, Kosovo Ombudsperson Sami Kurteshi says that high election threshold for political parties and independent candidates, and the fact that votes for the party should also go to the first candidate in the party list are illegal, TV21 reported.
Mitrovica/Mitrovicë-Zubin Potok road blocked
(Most monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
On Sunday noon dozens of people blocked Mitrovica/Mitrovicë-Zubin Potok road, namely in Gjuroviq village, thus making movement of vehicles impossible for about half an hour, Kosovapress news agency reported.
It is believed that the goal of the blockade was to stop police investigators from Mitrovicë/Mitrovica south police station to investigate a case in Zubin Potok town.
The police investigators team had to return back because of this road blockade.
Kosovo Police arrests two Serbs in Gracanica/Graçanicë
(RTK2)
Kosovo Police (KP) arrested two Serbs in Gracanica/Graçanicë because they were putting up election character posters for Serbia’s parliamentary elections, KP reported.
According to Prishtinë/Pristina based media, the two arrested persons are Daniel Kostic and Milomir Petric, who are also members of the Serbian Radical Party.
Kosovo Police stated that placement of such posters is illegal action.
