Experts from the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning, Ministry for Local Government and those from Mitrovica North and South, will meet on Tuesday in Pristina. The news was confirmed for Radio Free Europe by the Minister for Environment and Urban Planning, Dardan Gashi.
After the meeting of the leaders of LDK-AAK-NISMA coalition with Vetevendosje leader Albin Kurti, members of the working group of these parties will meet again at 15:00 hours at the headquarters of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK.)
Epoka e Re has learned that the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), will be represented by Kujtim Shala, AAK by Ardian Gjini, Citizens Initiative (NISMA), by Bilall Sherifi, while Visar Ymeri will represent Vetevendosje.
The elected members of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), registered today as Kosovo Assembly deputies. LDK, AAK and Citizens Initiative (NISMA) registered as a single parliamentary group of 47 deputies.
The Chairmanship of the Assembly of Kosovo, met today to discuss the procedures of the constitutive session of the new Assembly of Kosovo. The meeting comes a day after President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, decided to call the constitutive session of the Assembly of Kosovo on 17 July.
The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) has denied reports that the opposition coalition has agreed to Vetevendosje’s terms in exchange for its support for the formation of the government. Kujtim Shala, member of the LDK presidency, told Indeksonline that LDK leader Isa Mustafa did not meet this week with Vetevendosje leader Albin Kurti. “The LDK has not held any new meetings with the Vetevendosje Movement, but we are continuing our work with coalition partners and we will meet with the Vetevendosje Movement. Everything else is speculation,” Shala said.
Kosovo’s outgoing Prime Minister, Hashim Thaçi, spoke today during the meeting with the governing cabinet about the flow of the elections.
“Also, allow me to congratulate all institutions which are currently dealing with post-electoral managing process, Central Election Commission and all the other mechanisms, for their work on concluding this phase of election process, after organizing the best, fair, free, democratic and transparent elections after the war in Kosovo,” said Thaçi.
The situation in Mitrovica appears to be calm today, after yesterday’s clashes between the protesters and the police. KFOR and police forces have moved at “The park of peace.”
Mitrovica mayor Agim Bahtiri, in an interview for Indeksonline, said he had promised that barricades in Mitrovica would be removed and that this was done for the good of all communities and for their freedom of movement.
Indeksonline sources within the Central Election Commission (CEC) said the results published yesterday in the media about how many votes each candidate running in elections has received include votes from only 1,932 polling stations.
According to sources, these results do not include the ballots from 458 polling stations that are being audited nor conditional votes, diaspora votes and votes from persons with disabilities. This means that the results do not reflect 20 percent of the overall votes.
Citing reports from Indeksonline, the paper reports that the leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Isa Mustafa, had a meeting yesterday in a Pristina restaurant with the leader of the Initiative for Kosovo, Fatmir Limaj. They discussed the issue of a coalition with the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK).