Publicist Beqe Cufaj writes in an opinion piece that while some may find the coalition between the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) unnatural, the fact of the matter is that PDK and LDK are the two largest parties and in the present circumstances, it was the only possibility to put Kosovo back on track.

Six months and a day after Kosovo’s general election, the country finally has a government. But it is a government of strange bedfellows that faces daunting challenges. The new administration approved by parliament on Tuesday is headed by incoming prime minister Isa Mustafa , with his predecessor and fierce rival Hashim Thaci as his deputy and foreign minister.

Yet, while that may sound like a recipe for instability, the division of power is more likely to mean business as usual for Kosovo, both domestically and internationally.

Columnist Enver Robelli writes that yesterday’s Kosovo Assembly session which resulted in election of the government led by Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) leader, Isa Mustafa, was also a funeral ceremony for the party and only two of its MPs, Vjosa Osmani and Doruntine Maloku, tried to save it by voting against the new  government. The rest of LDK MPs voted in favour of a government that unites evil and crime, writes Robelli.

Political analysts Randjel Nojkic and Fadil Lapaja expect from the new government to overcome all internal differences and to work to solve everyday problems of citizens

Political analyst Randjel Nojkic for the RTK2 said that he believes that Serbs had to define their requirements previously in order to help the rapid formation of a government.

Legislators approved a new coalition government in Kosovo on Tuesday, including the first prime minister who was not involved with the insurgents who fought for the territory's independence from Serbia.

A general election was held in Kosovo June 8, but bickering among political rivals had prevented the formation of a new government until Tuesday's 65 percent vote of approval.

In its front-page editorial, the paper today writes that Monday put an end to speculations on who will lead the new government of Kosovo and also proved that the two largest parties, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), were not immune to narrow interest groups and chose 14 “recycled” names to be again part of the government. These “recycled” officials may have served their leaders well but they never made a positive change in the way they ran their ministries.

With 73 votes in favour, 38 against, and 2 abstentions, Kosovo Assembly elected the new Government led by Isa Mustafa.

The Government of Kosovo will consist of:

Isa Mustafa, prime minister

Hashim Thaçi – first deputy prime minister

Kujtim Shala - deputy prime minister

Branimir Stojanovic - deputy prime minister

PDK

Editor-in-chief of the Gazeta Blic news website, Adrian Collaku, writes that the end of the six-month institutional crisis in Kosovo produced winners and losers. The main losers, according to Collaku, are citizens of Kosovo not only because during the last six months, their living conditions deteriorated even further, but also because the governance remained unchanged. Although the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) will not formally lead the new government, it will have a say on all issues.

BY FATOS BYTYCI

Lawmakers in Kosovo will vote in a new government on Monday led by former Pristina mayor Isa Mustafa, with outgoing Prime Minister Hashim Thaci becoming foreign minister, a senior aide to Thaci said.

The deal ends six months of wrangling between Kosovo's two biggest parties, Mustafa's Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), since an inconclusive election in the young Balkan state.