Jakup Krasniqi, chairman of the national council of the Initiative for Kosovo (Nisma), is against a coalition with the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). Krasniqi told Politiko.net in an interview that he does not expect Nisma to enter a coalition with the PDK, but that he will wait for his party to make the final decision. “I don’t believe Nisma will consider a coalition with the PDK. We won’t enter that bargaining. I am saying no, but then again our party mechanisms will have to decide on the matter. My answer is no, but the majority in the party will make the final decision.”

Krasniqi, a former senior official of the PDK, prefers a unified opposition front. He believes that opposition parties can form a joint technical government. “A unified opposition front is possible, if opposition parties are ready to assume new responsibilities. It can be a technical government, but also a genuine government. A short calculation shows that the opposition has over 377,000 votes. This is more than half of the votes of the electorate in Kosovo. We need to see what is in our country’s best interest,” Krasniqi added.