New Kosovo government should be formed until the beginning of October the latest. Besides the post-election coalition of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA), movement ‘Self-Determination’, the Seriban List and representatives of all minorities should enter too. Self-Determination could be replaced with Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo (DPK) under the strong pressure of international community – said political analyst Fatmir Sheholli to daily Danas.
Sheholli went on to say that there is a ‘scenario’ for overcoming the political crisis in Pristina. He expects that the Assembly Speaker will be appointed again and that Isa Mustafa will actually be re-appointed at the post, while few days later President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga should call on Hashim Thaci to create the government, since his party was the winner at last parliamentary elections. Sheholli claims that Thaci won’t be able to meet the deadline and create the government within 15 days, because there is no party that wants to form a coalition with PDK at the moment when 10 of its officials are on the list of the American prosecutor Clint Williamson.
According to that ‘scenario’, after Thaci’s failure Jahjaga will request from the post-election coalition to convince her that they can provide majority in the parliament consisting of 61 deputies. Second prime minister designate will have 10 days to create a government, in the contrary new elections will take place. New elections are, for the time being, advocated only by the leader of the Alliance for New Kosovo Behxet Pacolli, who is, according to rumors in Pristina, close to Thaci.
It is most probable that second designate prime minister will be the leader of AAK Ramush Haradinaj, because he has a very strong desire to return to the post of the prime minister, which he voluntarily left in 2005, before he surrendered himself to the Hague Tribunal where he was acquitted in 2012 by all accounts. On his return to Pristina he was welcomed with the red carpet at the airport and by the outgoing Prime Minister Thaci himself, whose third term is currently resolutely refused by opposition.
Danas’s sources in diplomatic circles are not excluding the possibility that Thaci will do everything to enter a wide Albanian coalition, for what he could count on the support of the part of international community. Some assess that it could lead to a ‘silent war’ between the US and Germany, whereas Russia’s involvement, which has evidence on KLA crimes, is not excluded.
According to speculations, Thaci would leave the prime minister’s post to Harainaj, if PDK enters the government, however there is a possibility that those two can agree that leader of the PDK can replace Jahjaga at the post of the President of Kosovo, when conditions are crated.
