PDK with additional names for Assembly Speaker (Gazeta Blic)
The Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) announced on Tuesday that Arsim Bajrami will be their official candidate for the Speaker of the Assembly of Kosovo. However, PDK does not plan to give in if Bajrami does not manage to gain sufficient number of votes. Sources of GazetaPlus within PDK said that based on the decision of the Constitutional Court, which gives PDK the exclusive right to propose and elect candidate for the Speaker of the Assembly, this party has prepared a list with additional names to be presented to the parliament.
PDK youth in Pristina meet Mufti Ternava (RTK)
Mustafa: Decision on mandate of international judges must be withdrawn (RTK)
Constitutive session to continue on 12 September (kohaonline)
Brovina: Preparations for assembly session will be finalized next week (RTV21)
Beqiri: Request for new elections, Thaci's blackmail (RTKlive)
Ismet Beqiri, general secretary of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), stated today for Politiko.net that coalition block considers that the request for new elections, expressed by the adviser of the outgoing Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, is blackmail. Beqiri said that the Democratic Party of Kosovo is trying to intimidate one of the three parties that have formed the after-election block. “We say that he is very much mistaken because the Block never feared new elections.
Haradinaj: If the session is not called for this week, we will collect 40 signatures (RTKlive)
Leaders of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) met today to discuss the preparations for the Kosovo Assembly session, where the speaker of the Assembly is expected to be elected.
Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, said after this meeting that if the Assembly session is not called for this week, then they will manage to call the session on their own, by collecting 40 signatures of the deputies.