Radio Kosova reports that the European Union Office in Kosovo and heads of missions of EU Member States present in Kosovo, through a press statement, welcomed the constitution of the Kosovo Assembly and congratulated Prime Minister Isa Mustafa on the appointment of the new government.
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.
The complete agreement between Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK,) and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK,) on co-governance is already made public.
This agreement clarifies that the two parties agreed to vote Kadri Veseli for the Speaker of the Assembly of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa for the Prime Minister of Kosovo, while Thaci will be voted for the President, after the end of the constitutional mandate of the current President.
The paper’s Brussels-based columnist and correspondent, Augustin Palokaj, writes that politicians today, in order to avoid media contact, are increasingly using social networks to communicate with the public. The politicians view the journalists as a category that bores them and find it much easier to sit down and write whatever they want on Facebook or Twitter, adds Palokaj. This phenomenon is also being rigorously applied by Kosovo leaders, in particular. Hashim Thaci and Isa Mustafa.
President of Kosovo, Mrs. Atifete Jahjaga, received today at a meeting the PDK Chairman, Mr. Hashim Thaçi, and the LDK Chairman, Mr Isa Mustafa, who informed her with the conclusion of the agreement process on formation of the institutions of Kosovo.
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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.
A senior member of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), preferring to remain anonymous, told the news website that the majority of PDK members don't want Isa Mustafa, the leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), to be the new Prime Minister of Kosovo. The source also said that even if the PDK gives away the Prime Minister post it will insist that Mustafa should not get it. "If the LDK will not back down on the Prime Minister's post, then the PDK will insist that neither Hashim Thaci nor Isa Mustafa should get the post.
Hashim Thaci, leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and Prime Minister of Kosovo, will surprise the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) with a new compromise proposal after he returns from New York. It is no longer a secret that Thaci doesn’t want to be left out of the new government. Seeing that President Jahjaga doesn’t plan to give away her post and that she enjoys U.S. support, the PDK leader has decided to offer his highest offer to the LDK.
Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj writes in his opinion piece that the European Commission expressed serious concerns in its last Progress Report on Kosovo over the politicization of public administration and the increase of salaries on the eve of elections. Officials in Brussels notice that Kosovo is not investing in sustainable economic development that would create jobs but is rather increasing public spending. Palokaj argues that based on the circumstances and needs, the government of Kosovo should not have more than 14 members.
Zeri.info writes that Isa Mustafa, after the agreement to form a coalition with the Democrati Party of Kosovo (PDK), invited Fatmir Limaj [leader of NISMA political party] to join the coalition. However, the website portal writes that Bilall Sherfi, member of NISMA political party, said that Limaj refused such request and that the party has decided to stay in opposition. Source: Rubikon show, KTV.