Kosovo’s President-elect, Hashim Thaci, during an interview with TV Dukagjini today said that after being elected as Kosovo president, he received congratulations also from the opposition MPs. Thaci also reiterated his call for dialogue between the political parties in order to overcome the current crisis as soon as possible. In regards to opposition’s address to Constitutional Court about presidential election, Thaci said the opposition did the right thing if they thought there are elements to be addressed by this Court.

The political situation in Kosovo after the election of Hashim Thaci as President has been rather tense. The Kosovo opposition, unsatisfied with Thaci's election, but also with the agreement on the establishment of the Community/Association of Serb municipalities (ZSO), announced a new demonstration.

Officials from Kosovo opposition parties are committed to continue opposing the agreement on the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities and the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro. Vetevendosje MP Albulena Haxhiu told Telegrafi that the protest against the agreements has entered its seventh month and it has almost been three months since the opposition also began demanding the resignation of the government.

The newly elected Kosovo President, Hashim Thaci, in an interview with Voice of America said he will work with all political parties in Kosovo to overcome, what he called, differences between them. He added that his election, which was opposed by the opposition parties, was in accordance with Kosovo laws and Constitution, while denied having made agreements with the representatives of the Serb community in return for their vote.

Deputy President of the Assembly of Kosovo, Xhavit Haliti, from the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), said that there is no reason for confrontation between the government and the opposition. He said that there is no reason for PDK supporters to be confrontational. “I am not aware of any call to for confrontation,” Haliti said after his meeting with the Head of the Committee for Foreign Trade and Customs of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Semsudin Mehmedovic.

In an opinion piece today, referring to US Ambassador Greg Delawie's statements about opposition parties, the paper’s Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj writes that it shouldn't be a problem that international ambassadors in Kosovo criticize the behavior of opposition parties in the Assembly. “It is not difficult to agree with these statements. But the problem is when the ambassadors remain silent about mistakes made by the government.

Kosovo opposition lawmakers released tear gas in parliament on Friday, forcing the abandonment of this year's first legislative session as part of a long-running protest against a deal to grant the country's ethnic Serb minority more power.

Despite security checks at the entrance on Friday, Kosovo opposition lawmakers used tear gas again to prevent work in the Parliament and to pressure the government into renouncing deals with Serbia and Montenegro.

The session, delayed for about 50 minutes, was temporarily suspended on Friday after a tear gas canister was launched from opposition lawmakers' seats. A resumed session an hour later was suspended again for the same reason.

Kosovo Assembly approved a resolution condemning the recent decision by a Serbian court sentencing, in absentia, eight former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) members to sixteen years for an attack on Yugoslav Army troops in 1998. Two of the convicted persons, Anton Cuni and Rrustem Berisha, are Kosovo MPs. The voting took place under a cloud of tear gas released by the opposition MPs as the Kosovo Assembly President Kadri Veseli began to read the resolution text.

Opposition parties have announced a major protest for Wednesday as state institutions plan a series of celebratory events marking eight years of Kosovo's independence.

The Vetevendosje [Self-Determination] Movement, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, AAK, and Nisma have called on people to gather in Pristina’s main square on Wednesday to demand the resignation of Isa Mustafa's government.