"Thaci and Pacolli reach coalition agreement"
According to Pristina-based Albanian language daily Koha Ditore, Thaci and Pacolli met last night and agreed to run Kosovo in the next four years.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, February 09, 2011
The two parties' representatives are expected to determine which ministries they will be in charge of next week.
The daily's sources could not confirm whether Thaci agreed to leave the presidential role to the AKR.
"I know nothing about the agreement," said a PDK deputy leader.
"Everybody will get their duty based on political power," he told Koha Ditore.
The AKR, however, sees things differently.
"A condition to enter coalition with the PDK has been met. President Pacolli will run the country until conditions have been met for the people to choose the president," said one of the AKR deputy leaders.
PDK Spokesman Blerand Stavileci said earlier that the PDK had called the AKR to form the ruling coalition together.
"Positions are issues that need to be talked about. The prime minister's position belongs to Thaci, other positions are open," he stressed.
Thaci and Pacolli's meeting happened only two hours after the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) had decided not to join PDK's coalition.
"AAK Board of Directors is convinced that the best solution for Kosovo is forming of a broader coalition between the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Democratic League of Kosovo and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo. That's a unique opportunity to overcome this difficult situation that Kosovo is in," AAK leader Besnik Tahiri stressed.
The largest opposition party, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) led by Pristina Mayor Isa Mustafa, will not join Thaci's coalition.
The LDK stated immediately that the elections had not been fair and democratic and that there had been a "mass theft of citizens' votes".
