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Serbian List to form a Bloc of 20 MPs alongside minority communities MPs (Gazeta Blic)

Serbian List has acted as an independent political entity in deciding to cooperate only with non-Albanian parties and wants to establish a coalition bloc with them, said head of the List, Aleksandar Jablanovic. "This bloc will consist of twenty MPs that will make an important political force and will represent interests of minorities which are, in some areas, different to those of the majority Albanian population", Jablanovic was quoted by Serbian news agency Beta.

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Football in the Balkans: Spark meets tinderbox (The Economist/Gazeta Blic)

Gazeta Blic re-runs an opinion piece by Tim Judah that originally appeared in the Economist. There is nothing like a football match to push simmering ethnic tensions to the surface. No love has been lost between Serbs and Albanians for more than a century, and in modern times the battle over Kosovo has further divided the two peoples. In 1999 ethnic Albanians fought Serbs in the then-Serbian province, which was wrenched from Serbian control by NATO. In 2008 Kosovo’s majority Albanians declared independence.

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Haradinaj refers to the stalemate as a PDK dictatorship (Gazeta Blic)

Leader of Alliance for Future of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, said after a meeting of the post-election bloc that “there is no power in the world to force us to make a coalition with PDK”. He said they are not refusing meeting the leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Hashim Thaci, but that they simply don’t want him as a coalition partner.

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Bloc to wait for Jahjaga or address Constitutional Court (Gazeta Blic)

Coalition between Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Alliance for Future of Kosovo (AAK), Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) and Vetevendosje are waiting for President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, to once again approach the Constitutional Court asking for further clarifications regarding election of Assembly speaker. If she, however, fails to undertake this step, the Bloc will soon gather necessary signatures and address the Court on its own, a senior official from the Bloc said. “We have asked the country’s president, Atifete Jahjaga, to address the Constitutional Court.

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Elections? Why Not? (gazetablic)

According to Burim Etemaj, personal grudges of the political leaders and their greed for power has put Kosovo in a political and institutional stalemate. “Each block blames the other for the created situation. The Democratic Party of Kosovo claims to have the votes of the sovereign and the decision of the Constitutional Court to establish the institutions, but the truth that this party does not have the required numbers at the Assembly is already known by everyone.

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This is why internationals are against elections! (Gazeta Blic)

Some international officials in Kosovo are categorically against early elections. International sources told Gazeta Blic that there are two reasons why they think new elections are not necessary. “We could face the same situation again; the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and other parties of the bloc might not reach a pre-election agreement and the PDK would be the winning party again. This is why new elections might not be productive,” the source said.

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Reasons why the Bloc is not giving up the speaker’s post (Gazeta Blic)

Coalition between the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Alliance for Future of Kosovo (AAK), Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) and Vetevendosje – LVAN - are ready to give up the post of Assembly speaker to the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) but they fear that once the PDK takes it, it will not allow President Atifete Jahjaga to nominate the Bloc’s candidate for prime minister, an unnamed official from the Bloc said. “There have been discussions on the possibility of the Assembly speaker’s post going to PDK only to resolve the political crisis and form institutions.

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Jahjaga kills Bloc’s “hopes”, she will not address Constitutional Court (Gazeta Blic)

A source close with Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga told the news agency that representatives of the coalition bloc asked Jahjaga to seek additional explanations from the Constitutional Court on how to break the political deadlock. “Jahjaga, however, does not plan to address the Court again. She is confident that the solution lies in the latest decision of the Court,” the source said.

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Bloc reads a joint statement at the Kosovo Assembly session (Gazeta Blic)

Following speeches from Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Vetevendosje, Alliance for Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) MPs, Vjosa Osmani from LDK read out the bloc’s joint statement asking Flora Brovina to as soon as possible call a session so that the political stalemate is resolved and new institutions are formed. In the statement, the bloc’s MPs expressed their concern with the current political situation which, according to them, is created by the parliamentary minority led by the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK).

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