Emini: The issue was never about the name for the president, we will have an agreement at the last moment

Foreign policy expert Donika Emini has said that new elections do not suit any political party and that she believes that there will be an agreement on the presidential issue.

She said that the issue was never about the name for the president, but that it is the dynamics of political power that can ultimately resolve this issue.

"At the last moment we will have an agreement, because the parties, although normally preparing for elections, are in the campaign, former President Osmani is in the political campaign, as are the other parties, but all parties are afraid of a new electoral process," Emini declared on the "Interaktiv" show on KTV.

According to her, Vetëvendosje also has a lot to lose if the country goes to elections.

"First, Vetëvendosje has a lot to lose, it is normally a step ahead in the game, because it has not waited for other parties and has not made any agreements for governance, it has continued those that it can continue alone and has left the issues for which it needs the opposition until the last moment because it normally has an advantage in the game and during this time Vetëvendosje is managing the state budget, it is a very generous budget, it has social schemes, it has the 13th salary, something that is being applied for the first time", declared Emini.

"The others, although they normally have the only leverage against Vetëvendosje, the numbers for the president, because they have no other political power, are pushing the game to the end... both of them (PDK and LDK) because the third AAK is likely not to cross the threshold, especially if Vjosa Osmani enters the party political game, both of these will be at risk," she added.

Emini said that it would be appropriate not to have new elections, as according to her, a new electoral process would not produce any change and no benefit for Kosovo.

Emini emphasized that it would be appropriate for the Government's work to continue, as according to her, there are vital processes such as dialogue and integration that she said need to be worked on.

Kosovo has entered the final two weeks of the constitutional deadline to elect a president. If a president is not elected by April 28, the country will be forced to hold elections within 45 days.

On Wednesday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Glauk Konjufca, said on Wednesday that he is ready to withdraw his candidacy for president, if the opposition offers a candidacy.

But, he stressed that "from the plane" the opposition's lack of will to elect the president is visible.

After the December 28 elections, political entities have failed to find consensus on the president.

And, in the session to elect the head of state, which was boycotted by the opposition, Konjufca was initially proposed by Vetëvendosje, and then Fatmire Kollçaku-Mulhaxha. The session did not take place, since at the moment when the vote was supposed to take place, there were not at least 80 deputies in the hall, as required in the first and second rounds of the election.

The constitution requires that the new president be elected no later than one month before the current one's term ends. The session to elect the president took place on March 5, a month before Vjosa Osmani's term ended. The next day, Osmani issued a decree dissolving the Assembly.

However, the Constitutional Court declared the decree ineffective and decided to give the deputies until April 28, since it found that from the beginning of the mandate they did not have 60 days available to elect the head of state. And, according to the Constitution, if the election fails after 60 days, the Assembly is dissolved and early elections are announced.