Mustafa: Coalition with PDK – closed issue
(KTV)
Following certification of election results, The LDK chairman Isa Mustafa did not deny that LDK would discuss with VV, AAK, and Nisma, but he refuted a coalition with PDK, saying that it was a closed issue.
“The truth is that no Albanian political entity can form government alone or with non-majority communities with the existing votes. The second bitter truth is that the country’s governance is in danger of depending greatly on the will of Srpska List, that is to say of Serbia, unless we fail to find an Albanian consensus,” Mustafa posted on Facebook.
Mustafa said it has been a full consensus of all LDK branches not to cooperate with PDK after elections.
He highlighted that none of the running political entities did not get full citizens’ trust to form government, and it is up to the will of the party to judge without spite or anger.
Hasani interprets Constitutional Court judgment on forming government
(RTK1, TV21)
Former Constitutional Court president Enver Hasani explained the whole procedure which the state President shall follow in constituting government. Hasani said that with its 2014 judgement, Constitutional Court decided that at first, the opportunity shall be given to the party or coalition that has won elections, but if it fails in the first time, in the second time it is at the discretion of President to give mandate to the coalition or party which is proved to have the majority in the Assembly.
Furthermore, according to Hasani, government may be formed even by some other party that is not the second, but that is proved to have the majority in the Assembly on the second time.
Hasani said that in case formation of institutions fails even on the second time, then elections are called.
Hasani explains that certain MPs or political parties may vote for forming government, but they may be not part of government and remain in opposition.
Krasniqi: Kosovo Assembly Speaker may not be a Serb
(RTK2)
LDK vice chairman Memli Krasniqi refuted the possibility that a Serb may become Kosovo Assembly Speaker. He highlighted it was clear that the position would belong to what he called the winning coalition gathering around PDK.
“Kosovo will have its new government soon. The new government will be supported by those MPs who are willing to join our vision and human will for a strong leadership, which is capable of doing the job and taking crucial decisions,” Krasniqi said.
Political entities fined with thousands of euros
(Klan Kosova)
Political parties have been fined with around 350,000 euro in total for violations committed during June 11 election process.
Most of the violations were committed by PAN coalition parties, and consequently they have been fined with 158,000 euro. They are followed by the LDK-AKR coalition, fined with 71,000 euro.
VV has been fined with 62,000 euro, followed by Srpska List fined with over 35,000 euro.
All political parties were given a 15-day deadline to pay their fines, but none of them has done so.
Mulë Desku, Head of the Election Complaints and Appeals Panel (ECAP) Secretariat, says that ECAP will inform the Central Election Commission (CEC) to deduce unpaid fines of parliamentary political parties from the Democratisation Fund. Furthermore, those fines may increase. In case that does not work, political parties will have to face law enforcement agents.
However, it seems that political parties have a motivation to pay fines. CEC officials say that if political parties do not pay fines, they will not be allowed to take part in local elections by any means.
Election monitors believe that those fines have started to educate political parties in terms of complying with rules or regulations.
Some Kosovo MPs don’t recognise the country
(Klan Kosova)
There are some MPs who got votes to become Kosovo Assembly members, but who do not recognise the state of Kosovo. Moreover, one of them does not even hesitate to express his/her position that Kosovo is Serbia.
Miljana Nikolic will experience being MP in the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo also. The lady from Srpska List, who is a medical doctor from Mitrovica/Mitrovicë, used to be MP in Serbia in one mandate, as a party member of Serbian nationalist, Aleksandar Vulin. Recently, Nikolic has been an Assembly member in the North Mitrovica/Mitrovicë municipality under the Kosovo system.
Another Srpska List MP has had no relations whatsoever with Prishtinë/Pristina governing institutions. Verica Ceranic, also from Mitrovica/Mitrovicë, for a certain time was director of Serbia’s Employment Service for North Kosovo.
The list of those who served Serbia and who will now receive salaries from Kosovo’s budget as lawmakers does not end here. Srdzan Mitrovic, mayor of the parallel Serbian district of Anamorava, has also become an MP. He was fired several times as a Municipal Assembly member of Gjilan/Gnjilane.
Zoran Mojsilovic and Igor Simic, Assembly members of North Mitrovica/Mitrovicë municipality, have become MPs in the Kosovo Assembly.
However, another Simic, who is known to the public, failed to become an MP. The Srpska List leader Slavko Simic did not make it to the new Assembly legislature, while acting Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanovic got sufficient votes for another mandate as MP.
Because of this, Serbs have announced to file complaint at the Election Complaints and Appeals Panel (ECAP), as they doubt that votes of certain candidates were stolen.
One man and two women from Strpc/Shtërpcë, namely Sasa Milosavljevic, Jasmina Zivkovic, and Jelena Bontic, have become MPs and retained their mandates.
Slobodan Petrovic of the Independent Liberal Party has got tenth seat in the Kosovo Assembly reserved for Serb minority.
