Publicist Veton Surroi argues in his opinion piece that the majority in Kosovo is not represented by 200,000 voters of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and that “it is completely illogical for the will of the majority of the people of Kosovo to submit to the will of the minority”. Surroi notes that the state is the essential difference between the voters of the minority (PDK) and the majority (the opposition block: LDK, VV, AAK and Nisma). “In its seven years of governance (in the form of parallel structures, including SHIK) the PDK has represented the concept of seizing the state and controlling it outside democratic norms … During their election campaigns and in their earlier activities, parties of the opposition block were against the seizure of the state. LDK, Vetevendosje, AAK and Nisma, all of them highlighted the bad governance of the PDK, the undemocratic control of the assembly, judiciary, economic processes, privatization and employment. On 8 June, the PDK voter rewarded the success of this party in seizing the state and in granting personal and family favors (which in Kosovo’s extreme poverty have an existential meaning for almost half of the country’s population). On 8 June, the voter of the LDK, VV, AAK and Nisma, cast his/her vote for these parties for their promise that they would liberate the state from this seizure. On election day, almost 30 percent of voters rewarded the PDK and its coalition for seizing the state. On election day, 54 percent of voters rewarded the promise of the LDK, VV, AAK and Nisma that they would engage in liberating the state from those who have seized it. The four political parties from the opposition block that make up the majority of the electorate in Kosovo, which supports the liberation of the state from the seizure, need to assume the responsibility for the votes they won. They are in no way authorized by their voters to enter negotiations with the PDK and they should not hesitate to hold talks for the creation of the government … There is a majority of voters in Kosovo that want the liberation of the state from the seizers. This majority is represented with 54 percent of votes. Parties that won these votes have democratic and constitutional legitimacy to form the next government. Kosovo needs a government with a solid majority in parliament that would dissolve Albanian and Serb parallel structures and implement international obligations (the Marty court, negotiations with Serbia). A solid majority can be reached only by natural and principle coalition and there can be no natural or principle coalition with the Democratic Party of Kosovo which is responsible for the substantial degradation of the state.”
Kosovo needs a majority and European government – without PDK (Koha)
- Published: 10 years ago on 10/06/2014
- By: OSCPA F
- Last Modified: June 10, 2014 @ 11:22 am
- Filed Under: Opinions
- Tagged With: Koha, Surroi
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