Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo Hashim Thaci's presidential election will take place on the anniversary of the first day of the Kosovo Liberation Army Epopee, on 5 March, said a source close to Thaci’s cabinet.

So that elections for the Serbian parliament can take place in Kosovo, an agreement needs to be reached between Belgrade and Pristina, through mediation of the EU and Washington, says Bojan Klacar from the Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID), and added that it is expected that the OSCE will organize the technical side of the elections, as was the case in 2014.

In an open letter, a group of civil society activists urged the people of Kosovo to support early elections as the only way to resolve the current political stalemate. “We live in days of mistrust in the country’s institutions, of doubts in the power of the citizen and in the possibility for social change. Therefore, we support calls for early parliamentary elections,” the letter signed by eleven civil society figures reads.

The government of Kosovo has not yet taken a stance on whether it will allow Serbian parliamentary elections to be held in the predominantly-Serb municipalities. Deputy Minister of the Local Government and Administration Bajram Gecaj told Radio Kosova that the government of Kosovo has not yet discussed Serbian elections in Kosovo. Meanwhile, political analysts say Kosovo institutions should treat the subject with caution.

Assembly of Kosovo has prolonged its winter holiday more than usual, after a season when tear gas by the opposition parties was thrown almost at every session.

Assembly Presidency gathered last week however they did not set the date for the next session. They said the date will be set at the next meeting of the Presidency which is to commence on 6 or 7 February.

Our coalition consists mainly of associations of displaced persons of Kosovo, but also a number of prominent individuals who do not belong to any association. Their work and dedication, until they were violently expelled from our ancestral homes, have left an indelible mark on the territory of Kosovo, said Milos Stojkovic, President of the Coalition of Displaced Persons from Kosovo and Metohija to Danas, announcing the participation of the coalition in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

The leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, has called the MPs from his party to meet tomorrow at 13:00 p.m. Sources within the party told Gazeta Blic that Mustafa will request them to vote Hashim Thaci for President of Kosovo. He will ask them to at least be present at the Assembly to establish the required quorum for voting Thaci for President,” said this source. Several MPs from LDK announced that they will prevent Hashim Thaci from being elected.

Dialogue with Pristina in Brussels will proceed at a technical level from the official start of the election campaign in Serbia to the formation of a new government, which can take up to two months and more.

Serbia’s general elections are expected to be held also in Kosovo, and OSCE will be most probably requested to offer technical help.

There will be no local elections of Serbia, being that Brussels agreement obliges Kosovo Serbs to hold their elections according to Kosovo’s election system.

Head of the Council for Kosovo at the Serbian Assembly, Milovan Drecun, told Belgrade media that Serbia’s general elections will be held in Kosovo, no matter eventual obstacles by Pristina.

“Who would have thought that on an average Kosovar day, eight years after the independence, rightfully or not, one party would see the other as Milosevic’s regime, while the other would see the first one as ISIS force,” writes Lumir Abdixhiku today and adds that clashes in Kosovo have reached very far. He does not see a calm future of Kosovo and considers that clashes among the political parties would not end naturally without an intervention from abroad. “As far as internal intervention is concerned, I have lost all hopes.