Kosovo parliament to hold constitutive session
The Kosovo parliament will hold a constitutive session today, with no guarantee of a new government.
Friday, 04.01.2008.
10:04
The Kosovo parliament will hold a constitutive session today, with no guarantee of a new government. The legal deadline for forming the Kosovo parliament ends today, and started on December 4, when UNMIK Chief Joachim Ruecker announced the official results of the November elections. Kosovo parliament to hold constitutive session If, by some chance, the parliamentary session failed to take place today, new elections would automatically be called. The election winner, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and leader Hashim Thaci, reached an initial agreement to form a ruling coalition with Fatmir Sejdiu’s Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), but the agreement has not become official yet. Therefore, the agenda for the first session will only see new MPs taking their oaths, as well as the election of a parliamentary speaker. There are several rumors doing the rounds as to why the two parties have yet to form a ruling coalition. Sejdiu’s camp states that discussions regarding the government are still ongoing. PDK Secretary General Jakub Krasnici claims that the delay stems from the very strict criteria Hashim Thaci is setting for the appointment of government ministers. Thaci is known as a vocal critic of the last government, claiming it was full of corruption, and has therefore stated that no ministers from the last government will take part in the new one. This would call for a complete overhaul of all LDK personnel, which adds to the current identity crisis the party is going through since the death of Ibrahim Rugova and its first ever election defeat.
Kosovo parliament to hold constitutive session
If, by some chance, the parliamentary session failed to take place today, new elections would automatically be called.The election winner, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and leader Hashim Thaci, reached an initial agreement to form a ruling coalition with Fatmir Sejdiu’s Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), but the agreement has not become official yet.
Therefore, the agenda for the first session will only see new MPs taking their oaths, as well as the election of a parliamentary speaker.
There are several rumors doing the rounds as to why the two parties have yet to form a ruling coalition.
Sejdiu’s camp states that discussions regarding the government are still ongoing.
PDK Secretary General Jakub Krasnici claims that the delay stems from the very strict criteria Hashim Thaci is setting for the appointment of government ministers.
Thaci is known as a vocal critic of the last government, claiming it was full of corruption, and has therefore stated that no ministers from the last government will take part in the new one.
This would call for a complete overhaul of all LDK personnel, which adds to the current identity crisis the party is going through since the death of Ibrahim Rugova and its first ever election defeat.
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