Written by: Petrit Selimi
Albin Kurti is the first party leader in the history of Kosovar democracy who has multiple options to elect the president of the republic. He could extend the mandate of outgoing President Vjosa Osmani, with the help of LDK. He could agree on another candidate with LDK. Kurti could ignore both LDK and Osmani and agree with PDK on a candidate that suits them and that gets 80 votes. The omnipotent Prime Minister of Kosovo also has another option: he could propose a neutral, consensual name that is not at all involved in politics. Any professor or career diplomat or activist from civil society with human integrity.
None of the options, where Kurti is asked to make a very small compromise to complete the creation of institutions and continue the government completely unhindered as prime minister, satisfies him. The prime minister in Kosovo, according to our constitutional system, is the epicenter of governance, the implementation of decisions, the shaping of policies. As prime minister with a powerful mandate of 51%, Kurti has the luxury of directing the process of electing the President to people who actually have no executive role nor theoretical possibility of competing politically.
But no. The Vetëvendosje regime has decided to block Osmani. It has also decided to block any agreement with LDK or PDK. In the world of the Kosovar prime minister, there is no room for any compromise, no matter how minimal, for the good of Kosovo, if he sees any danger that denies him the right for him and only him to be the one who dominates the entire government, the entire Parliament and all institutions.
The prime minister has begun to proclaim that he has this right "written" by God. He said it with his own mouth the day before yesterday: "God himself" gave him 51.1%. Purely theologically, this is of course blasphemy, but Kurti's statement about the "divine mandate" betrays what is really on the mind of the prime minister: to create the Third Republic where there is no place for anyone who does not pass the test of Prophet Kurti's puritanism.
The problem is that this Second Republic, the real and existing republic, not an imaginary one, has a political heritage and a legal system where the people vote for the government and the one who makes the simple majority governs with the seat and the assembly but the president needs a broader consensus of a 2/3 majority of the deputies. This is not a pity. This legal system and democratic tradition is intentionally designed and cultivated to create coalitions and encourage compromises. The Second Republic, this real, existing one, for which blood was shed and for which we made covenants with America and its allies, considers coalitions and compromises to be valuable.
Kurti is responsible for leading the government alone and controlling the Assembly alone. But for the presidency, he needs the votes of others.
Kurti will not ask for the votes of the people because he considers 51.1% self-sufficient for self-satisfaction. Kurti has no problem with blocking an entire Republic (this Second, real, existing one), an entire society, an entire state. Even in a blockade, crisis, chaos, he swims like a fish in water.
And so the historic winner of the deepest mandate ever won by the people for the government, has voluntarily decided, "with a clear mind" as we popularly say, to abdicate from governance, from responsibilities, from compromise and coalitions, for yet another roll of the dice towards mono-party dominance (which is actually mono-personal because VV is Kurti and only Kurti).
That's why we are heading towards elections.
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