Chairman of the Kosovo Assembly’s constitutive session, Adem Mikullovci, said he was waiting for an official confirmation from PAN that they have secured the necessary votes for electing speaker before announcing the date of the next session. “I cannot call a session simply based on media reports,” Mikullovci said.  “The moment they ask for a session, I will call one,” he added.

The Chairman of the consultative meeting of Kosovo political parties, Adem Mikullovci, announced that he will call resumption of the Kosovo Assembly session for 24 August, as proposed by the PAN coalition.

Vetevendosje movement did not participate at the meeting, while all the other political parties agreed with the PAN’s proposal to hold the session on 24 August.

The PAN representative, Enver Hoxhaj, requested for the session to be held on the date and also stressed that sessions should not be called unilaterally without a joint agreement.

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Vetevendosje movement MP, Driton Caushi, said after the interruption of the constitutive session of the Assembly of Kosovo that his party will not attend the consultative meeting with PAN coalition, called by the chairman of the session, Adem Mikullovci.

He however stressed that they would consider Avdullah Hoti’s request for a roundtable where the possibilities to address the Constitutional Court would be considered.

Head of the LAA parliamentary group, Avdullah Hoti, and the representatives of PAN coalition confirmed participation at the consultative meeting.

MPs of the PDK-AAK-NISMA (PAN) coalition are not the only ones that are not attending the Kosovo Assembly constitutive session today. MP’s from Behxhet Pacolli’s Alliance for New Kosovo (AKR), are also not attending the session called by the chairman of the session, Adem Mikullovci.

Deputy leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Enver Hoxhaj, said PAN coalition insists on the Kosovo Assembly constitutive session chairman calling a consultative meeting of parliamentary parties in order to reach agreement on when to hold the next session of the Assembly.

Head of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Pal Lekaj, said after today’s consultative meeting of parliamentary groups that it is clear who is blocking the creation of new institutions of Kosovo. He said that PAN representatives would not take part in the Assembly’s constitutive session called for tomorrow as it was announced without prior consultations.

Vetevendosje’s Glauk Konjufca said in a press conference following the consultative meeting of heads of parliamentary groups which he did not attend that PAN coalition was only trying to buy time by asking for additional meetings and not attending Assembly’s constitutive session. “They are trying to buy time to close the deals they have started because they do not have the votes”, Konjufca said.  “Time of political meetings is gone.

Deputy leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Enver Hoxhaj, said after e meeting of the party leadership that Kadri Veseli remains the only candidate for Kosovo Assembly speaker and that the decision on whether to take part in the Assembly’s constitutive session scheduled for Thursday will be announced tomorrow.

Vetevendosje has once again called on PAN coalition to come up with a candidate for the post of Assembly speaker and “not block institutions”.

“Any attempt to block institutions is an unprecedented destructiveness and a completely unjustified action” said Vetevendosje MP, Ismail Kurteshi.