Imer Mushkolaj writes that now as President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci is trying to appear as a “new man”. He highlights a number of statements given in the recent years by Thaci pledging to lead a zero tolerance policy towards corruption and says they all represent the demagogy of a man who is now leading Kosovo. “In his two mandates as the head of the Government, Hashim Thaci either did not manage or did not want to create a rule of law state, a state that punishes law breakers,” writes Mushkolaj adding that Thaci now presents himself as someone who holds no responsibility for the state in which Kosovo is: suffocated by crime and corruption, undeveloped and isolated. In his inauguration speech as the new president of Kosovo, Thaci said that the hero of Kosovo is a good prosecutor and a good judge who strictly respect the law but what he failed to mention, according to Mushkolaj, is how is it possible that all those judicial officials he mentioned are controlled by politics. Furthermore, Thaci said that persons with criminal files or indictments will not be part of Kosovo institutions or election lists, “forgetting” that senior PDK officials and municipality mayors continue to hold their posts despite being convicted. “There are even those who have fled justice,” writes Mushkolaj seemingly referring to the former Kacanik mayor, Xhabir Zharku.  “One gets the impression he [Thaci] did not live here all these years and the Kosovo we have is not a legacy of his bad governance. Do not trust him. He is his old self albeit in a different attire,” Mushkolaj concludes.