Berat Buzhala, former deputy of the Assembly of Kosovo and member of the Steering Committee of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK,) has resigned today from this position. In his notification, Buzhala expressed special appreciation for Skenderaj/Srbica mayor, Sami Lushtaku. According to him Lushtaku is being unfairly tortured for war crimes. “While the party to which he belongs, has done little or nothing to help enlightening of the truth,” assessed Buzhala.

Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) has begun preparations for new elections despite the post-election coalition having withdrawn claims on the Assembly speaker’s post. A senior PDK official said that the party MPs will not take part in an Assembly session without an agreement on the government first. “PDK will not call a constitutive session. If the Bloc does, it realistically commits a constitutional violation”, the PDK unnamed official said. “We are also entitled to the Government. We will not go to the Assembly without an agreement. We are preparing for new elections”, the source added.

Leader of Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Isa Mustafa, took to Facebook to comment on yesterday’s statement of Hashim Thaci, leader of Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) about new elections saying that there is no need for Kosovo to head to elections because it has a parliamentary majority. Mustafa said the PDK has only 36 votes in the Kosovo Assembly out of the total of 120 and it is not in a position to dictate what should happen in Kosovo and when elections should be scheduled.

Publicist and former publisher of Koha Ditore, Veton Surroi, writes in an opinion piece that while the Bermuda Triangle serves as a synonym for a mystery, in Kosovo there is a similar type of a triangle between the leader of Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) Hashim Thaci, President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga, and President of Constitutional Court Enver Hasani. The Kosovo triangle, adds Surroi, possesses all necessary features of the Bermuda Triangle – capacity to create losses and its banality. Thaci leads the triangle in all aspects.

Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) member of presidency, Lutfi Haziri, has dismissed reports in certain local and Albanian media outlets that they are moving towards a coalition agreement with Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). Haziri said that there is no agreement and that the post-election coalition is working for establishing legitimate institutions. Earlier media reports suggested that LDK leader, Isa Mustafa, is expected to agree to a coalition with Hashim Thaci’s PDK under the pressure of the US and German embassies.

Columnist Donik Sallova writes today that for the first time since June elections, last week the parties of the VLAN coalition showed signs of giving up on the demand to have the post of Assembly speaker by claiming that the key objective of the coalition is to undertake reforms so necessary in Kosovo. In a way, adds Sallova, the coalition bloc surrendered to the fact that constitutional procedures as well as the ruling of the Constitutional Court prevent it from electing a speaker from its own ranks.

Isa Mustafa, leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), writes on his Facebook account today: “Dear citizens, five months have passed since the agreement between the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and the Initiative (NISMA), later joined by the Vetevendosje Movement, and our efforts to respect democratic procedures and as a parliamentarian majority to form the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo and the government.

A diplomat from a Quint member state told Lajmi on the condition of anonymity that leaders of main parliamentary parties have brought Kosovo on the verge of a political, economic and financial collapse. He said the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy are analyzing the situation and are concerned with the hypocrisy of leaders who do not hesitate to tell the media that they have brought Kosovo to this situation in order to protect the interests of the people.

Arben Gashi, Deputy of the Democratic League of Kosovo, stated that his party should not aim the position of the Assembly President, and that this post should be left to the Democratic Party of Kosovo. “It would have been good to consider this issue, because the country has entered a blockade and the blockade is dangerous, both economically and in the aspect of security.

Leader of Alliance for Future of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, said after a meeting of the post-election bloc that “there is no power in the world to force us to make a coalition with PDK”. He said they are not refusing meeting the leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Hashim Thaci, but that they simply don’t want him as a coalition partner.