The Chairman of the Kosovo Assembly, Glauk Konjufca, said on Friday that the majority does not have the will to lead the country to early elections because “there is no reason” for the government to resign.
“This is a rare case where all parties agree to go to elections, but they fail to do so,” Konjufca, who comes from the ruling Vetëvendosje party, told reporters.
The opposition in the country, including some of the largest parties such as the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), have recently demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s government.
They want Kurti’s government to resign due to what they call its ongoing failures, both internally and in foreign policy.
Kurti said in an interview with Radio Free Europe (RFE) on March 19 that “it’s the same” for his party.
“I don’t have a problem with either option… If the opposition wants early elections, the Assembly must be dissolved,” he said.
However, so far there has been no agreement on how to proceed with early elections.
“It doesn’t seem to be a matter of fear, but rather a lack of will on the part of the majority for this to happen through the resignation of the government. Governments resign only when something is not working,” Konjufca said.
Currently, the ruling Vetëvendosje has 56 deputies in the 120-seat Assembly, while the three opposition parties have 42. Two are independent, while the others belong to smaller parties or minority communities.
The Deputy Chairman of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Lutfi Haziri, told RFE this week that his party has not changed its position and that for early elections to take place, the government must resign.
Meanwhile, Democratic Party of Kosovo MP Blerta Deliu-Kodra said her party supports the idea that early elections should be held through the dissolution of the Assembly.
The four-year mandate of the current government ends next March.
But Arton Demhasaj from the non-governmental organization “Çohu” in Pristina believes that, with one option or the other, the country will go to elections at the latest by September of this year.
Demhasaj, a political analyst, told RFE that the “problematic” issue of how the country can be sent to early elections is a “political game” of both the ruling party and the opposition.
According to him, Vetëvendosje prefers to go to early elections through a political agreement among the parties for the dissolution of the Assembly.
