For more than a year, Kosovo has been regularly entering elections because Albin Kurti finds victory insufficient to be the sole leader of the people of Kosovo. Last year, Kosovo entered elections three times, twice parliamentary elections and once local.
Written by: Mero Baze
On Thursday at noon, the constitutional deadline for electing the President ends, and normally Vjosa Osmani should announce new elections, as it seems clear that Albin Kurti will not provide consensus for a president who is not his.
New elections produce nothing new, except for the fact that they keep Albin Kurti in power without governing and may increase or decrease his votes enough to go back to new elections in a few months.
Election time is usually either for New Year's or in the summer in August, when emigrants from abroad come to vote for him. Until then, he does not govern, but curses the opposition for not giving him all the power, continuing Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution.
The theory of permanent revolution, which is attributed to Trotsky, implied the seizure of power by democratic methods and then the deepening of the revolution through socialist measures without interruption until the complete triumph of people's power.
Of course, it is not all Albin Kurti's responsibility. The opposition in Kosovo bears its responsibility for this situation because they, on their part, did not have the courage to come up with their own name for president to make Albin Kurti responsible for not providing consensus a fait accompli. I understand that many of them cannot swallow Vjosa Osmani and the bad relations with her, but they could have maintained a stance towards her and proposed someone else.
This going to the elections like a skunk, without any fight, without firing a single shot to give the country a president is a shame for the entire political class and a triumph of Albin Kurti's malice and personal ambitions not to govern Kosovo, but to keep it in permanent crisis so that he can appear as its savior.
This situation is a strong reason for the international community to look with regret at what it has done for Kosovo and one more argument for Kosovo's enemies who have used as their argument the lack of state-building capacity of the political class in Kosovo.
Now on Thursday all the parties will pretend they don't care and will ask for a new constitutional deadline, all becoming constitutional experts, but in fact they are politicians and should give the country a political solution. They should either sit at the table and give the country a president above the parties, or each party should make its own political offer to take responsibility for why they are going to incomparable elections again.
Now everyone is pushing Kosovo into elections without wanting anyone to be held accountable. Albin Kurti no longer wants Vjosa Osmani, as she has emerged with a high political profile in relations with President Trump and the European Union and eclipses him by becoming a point of reference for the West in Kosovo. For this reason, Albin Kurti more easily makes President Hashim Thaçi in The Hague than Vjosa Osmani in Pristina. Even graffiti has appeared on the walls of Kosovo showing Vjosa Osmani talking to Trump, labeling them as two terrorists.
The fragmented opposition, filled with leaders who do not represent it, makes petty bargains with the situation, failing to rise to the level of responsibility that an opposition that is distinct from the government should have.
Under these conditions, the country will inevitably go to new elections, and Vjosa Osmani will be a new political actor, who for the first time can prove her political power against LDK and LVV, under whose guise she has come this far in politics. Meanwhile, Kosovo will prove its powerlessness to be a functional democracy and a serious state.
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