Outgoing Prime Minister Hashim Thaci met on Wednesday with Behxhet Pacolli, leader of the New Kosovo Alliance (AKR), in a restaurant in Pristina. Pacolli was accompanied by his deputy, Mimoza Kusari-Lila. Thaci told reporters after the meeting that “this was a meeting between friends”, while Pacolli called it an ordinary meeting but left open the possibility of a coalition with Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) if the AKR manages to pass the election threshold. “We are optimistic that, after the recount of conditional votes and the votes of people with disabilities, we will cross the election threshold. I have said before that every option is open, but for the time being I cannot speculate,” Pacolli said. He also ruled out a coalition with the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) led by Isa Mustafa, saying that “we have gone our separate ways”.