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. There were other losers as well, adds Collaku, and they include PDK leader, Hashim Thaci, and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). Thaci lost because despite winning elections, he resorted to a position lower than the one he had so far and agreed to have LDK leader, Isa Mustafa, become his superior. At the same time, LDK is also on the losing side as although Mustafa will be prime minister, he will not be able to change anything while having PDK in the government.

Collaku predicts that by next elections, LDK electorate will shrink while that of PDK and Vetevendosje will grow. This will be due to the fact that all failures of the new government will be attributed to the LDK whereas PDK will continue to maintain, and perhaps even increase, its electorate by rejecting responsibility from government’s failures.

Of course, the political crisis also produced winners, in fact, a “super-winner” as Collaku puts it, and that is the new Kosovo Assembly Speaker, Kadri Veseli. Not only did Veseli manage to take the third-most influential post in the country thus surpassing even his party leader Thaci but he also handed a powerful blow to the LDK, a party which has consistently accused him of being behind the PDK-led Kosovo Intelligence Service (SHIK), but nevertheless voted in favour of his election.