The government of Kosovo allocated today €4.9 million for early elections. Outgoing Deputy Prime Minister, Hajredin Kuçi said that these means are required to organize 11 June elections.

“The Office of the Prime Minster has received a request from the Central Election Commission to allocate €4 million and 944 thousand and 900, required to organize 11 June elections. I believe that these means are necessary and I call on you to approve them,” Kuci said.

The Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) has voted for the motion of no-confidence on the government of Kosovo.

With 78 votes for, 34 against and 3 abstentions, Kosovo Assembly has removed the mandate of the government of Kosovo with Isa Mustafa as Prime Minister. The motion of no-confidence was initiated by the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) and supported by opposition parties. This voting will lead to early elections in Kosovo.

During the Assembly debate on the no-confidence motion for the government, head of the Vetevendosje movement parliamentary group, Glauk Konjufca, counted some of what he called failures of the government of Kosovo, with Isa Mustafa as Prime Minister.

According to Konjufca,  Mustafa became Prime Minister with the agreement which made Hashim Thaci President, a few months after Mustafa held campaign against him.

Before the voting of the co-confidence motion sponsored by the opposition parties, Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa said it was a “political pamphlet” containing false arguments. “The motion is aimed at destabilizing the country by fuelling mistrust with the institutions and creating an institutional vacuum to hide corrupt affairs,” he said in his speech before the Assembly members. Facts are different, he said and went on to list achievements which he said were reached during his government’s mandate.

Valdete Bajrami, Kosovo Assembly MP from the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA), told the news portal that she is convinced that the current government will be brought down during tomorrow’s session at the Assembly of Kosovo.  According to Bajrami, the initiative of her party for the motion of no-confidence will not pass only if PM Mustafa resigns tonight. She stated convincingly that Isa Mustafa is Prime Minister in decline.

The government of Kosovo postponed the meeting scheduled for today where it was expected to submit the border demarcation agreement to the Assembly for ratification. In a statement, the government said the decision to postpone came after consultations between coalition partners - the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) – held in the presence of U.S. representatives.

MPs of the Serbian List in the next few days will decide whether to support a request for a vote of no confidence in the Government of Kosovo, which the Kosovo Assembly will consider on Wednesday, said Slavko Simić to RTV KIM.

Serbian List wants to continue the processes that are of vital importance for the Serbian community in Kosovo and the process of dialogue, said President of the Serbian List.

Simić ads a "negative atmosphere was created among deputies."

 The President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci held an urgent meeting with the President of the Assembly of Kosovo, Kadri Veseli. Gazeta Metro reports that Thaci left immediately after his speech at the meeting with civil society representatives on the draft regulation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to meet Veseli and discuss opposition parties’ submission of the motion of no-confidence on the government.

Kosovo opposition parties officially filed the request for motion of no confidence against the government.  Representatives of the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA), Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Vetevendosje submitted to the Assembly this morning the no-confidence motion containing signatures of 42 MPs, including several from the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). The Assembly presidency is now obliged to call a special session of the Assembly within five but the no-confidence vote needs to receive the approval of 61 MPs to pass.

MP from the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA), Haxhi Shala, said the no-confidence motion against the government would be submitted to the Assembly of Kosovo when the opposition leaders deem the moment to be right. “If demarcation is not presented to MPs this week, the motion could then be submitted,” Shala said adding that if however the border demarcation agreement goes to the Assembly this week, “I strongly believe it will not pass and perhaps there won’t be a need for a motion at all as the government would most likely fall.”