The elected deputy of the Unique Gorani Party, Adem Hoxha, meets with Kosovo’s acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti, April 3.
The elected deputy of the Unique Gorani Party, Adem Hoxha, said on Tuesday that his party still has doubts about whether to support the leader of the Vetëvendosje Movement and Kosovo’s acting Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, in forming the new government.
“I have no problem with Kurti or anyone else. But I have put a question mark [on the support], considering the experience we had with Prime Minister Kurti over the past four years,” Hoxha told Radio Free Europe.
Hoxha did not explain what their experience with Kurti was during his previous four-year term, nor did he outline any conditions he might set for giving Kurti his vote for a third mandate.
Hoxha was among the officials from non-Serb minority parties whom Kurti met with on April 3 to discuss forming the country’s new government.
He added that in the new composition of the Assembly, deputies from non-Serb minorities are trying to create a joint parliamentary group, which he would also be part of.
If no agreement is reached on forming a joint group, Hoxha said he might join the parliamentary group of any party, whether Albanian or non-Albanian.
Hoxha — who in the past was part of the Parliamentary Group of the Serb List — denied having faced any pressure from “Serbia or anyone else,” after Kosovo’s Security Council recently said that Serbia was attempting to sabotage the “formation of new institutions” and the ninth legislature, which emerged from the February 9 parliamentary elections.
“No one from Serbia has called me, and I have received no threats, blackmail, or suggestions,” Hoxha stressed to RFE/RL.
Although he insisted he had not received any suggestions from the Serb List either, Hoxha admitted he continues to cooperate with the main party of Kosovo Serbs, which enjoys the backing of official Belgrade.
He insisted that it is “natural” to cooperate with the Serb List and said he also cooperates with Albanian parties, such as the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK).
“All of us who are elected by the people must cooperate in some way for the interest of Kosovo and its people,” Hoxha said.
Just days after Kurti’s efforts to convince non-Serb minority parties to vote for his government, Vetëvendosje deputy leader Glauk Konjufca said on Tuesday that he does not believe forming the new government is possible without including opposition parties in the governing coalition.
Vetëvendosje won the February 9 elections with around 42 percent of the vote, securing 48 seats in Kosovo’s 120-seat Assembly.
It needs at least 61 seats to form a new government.
Kurti had been counting on the 10 deputies from non-Serb minority parties.
