Valon Murati ironically addresses Kurti: He addressed the diaspora - the voters are not letting me work

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Express newspaper

06/05/2026 19:18

An expert on political developments in the country, Valon Murati, finds it "strange and unbelievable" that Prime Minister Kurti is asking for votes from the diaspora with the excuse "that the opposition is not letting him work."

"The most voted person in post-independence Kosovo, with over 50% of the votes and the Kosovo Assembly, finds that the opposition is not letting him work and that he wants even more votes," says Murati.

His full response:

They're not letting me work! Or will Prime Minister Godon meet him?

Today, Prime Minister Kurti addressed his compatriots with a clear message: register to vote for me, because they are not letting me work! Strange, unbelievable! The most voted man in post-independence Kosovo, with over 50% of the votes and the Kosovo Assembly, states that the opposition is not letting him work and that he wants even more votes.

It seemed ironic to me and I remembered when, in the 1990s, we were committed to organizing the liberation war, believing that it was the only path to freedom. Imagine complaining that Serbia was not letting us organize for freedom. Or that the legal pacifist political parties were not letting us, the absolute majority of which, both in Kosovo and in Albania and in all other regions, was against the policy of armed war, and consequently the majority of the people and public opinion believed in the path of pacifist politics.

Only we were not asking for votes, but for support for expanding the organization of armed resistance. And no, we did not complain, even when comrades were imprisoned, killed and wounded. We worked and fought until Kosovo was free. And that too while having a very small critical mass in favor of the war, especially in its beginnings. Incomparably smaller than Prime Minister Kurti in a free Kosovo and with all the executive and legislative institutions in his hands.

But he doesn't want more votes to work. Such absurdity would have inspired Beckett again, because this demand for more votes to work resembles the eternal wait for Godot to arrive. Neither does work come with more votes, nor does Godot appear on the horizon.