AAK sees Haradinaj as a solution, analysts: It is difficult to have a common candidate

The Alliance has said that the possible candidacy of Ramush Haradinaj for president is an opportunity to unblock the political situation in the country. However, political experts estimate that reaching an agreement between the former opposition parties for a joint candidate is unlikely. Compromises are required from the political parties.

The elected Alliance MP, Besnik Tahiri, has explained the position of the former party leader, Ramush Haradinaj, who last week expressed his willingness to run for president.

According to Tahiri, if the Democratic Party and the Democratic League support Haradinaj, then the country is unblocked, as Vetëvendosje can also run with a candidate.

"Ramush Haradinaj has never asked for votes, he has never said I am the candidate. He said to unblock Kosovo, if the opposition supports his candidacy then there will be an electoral race. So, this position would at least unblock Kosovo, it is not known who would win, but there would be a candidate for president from the opposition and one from among them," said Tahiri.

The June 7 elections were held after the X Legislature failed to elect a president.

For the presidential election, at least 80 votes – or two-thirds of the deputies – are required in the first two rounds of voting, and the new president could be elected with 61 votes in the third round.

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The LVV has 53 mandates, and the other three Albanian parties 47.

If two candidates are competing for the trust of the deputies, one from the largest party and one from the former opposition, then reaching a quorum for voting would not be a problem. 

The 20 votes of the deputies of non-majority communities would be decisive.

But, according to political expert Fitim Gashi, such a version is almost impossible.

Gashi says that it is difficult for the three former opposition parties to gather around one candidate, be it Haradinaj or someone else.

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"AAK is the only party that has so far given proposals either for the possibility of a name that the opposition could put forward as a consensual candidate for president, or for the program points that it presented, which each government should have in exchange for AAK's votes. But it is known what the power of AAK is and all this depends on what the disposition of the other largest opposition parties will be, in this case PDK and LDK. And based on the internal developments that are being seen within these parties, it is not certain that there could be a consensual candidate with whom the opposition could compete, or that it could come out in the session where the vote for the president would be held," Gashi declared. 

American expert on the Balkans, Daniel Serwer, has said that the institutional impasses emerging in Kosovo are problems that stem from the country's own constitutional system.

He said that this time, compromises will be necessary.

"The main problem is in the very nature of the institutional system you use. You use a parliamentary system where the president is not directly elected, but is elected by parliament, the government has to be approved in parliament. You know, the Dutch, who have much more experience with this than you, have also had big problems from time to time. It is not unusual in parliamentary systems, but it has not been good for Kosovo. Three elections have not solved anything, essentially," he stated.

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Failure to elect a new president 60 days after the constitution of the assembly leads the country to another election.

The Assembly must be constituted within 30 days of the certification of the election results, which are being held hostage by 5 complaints.