Forming of the new Kosovo government has been called into question
Some MPs from Hashim Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) do not want Behgjet Pacolli to be a president of Kosovo.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Friday, February 11, 2011
According to earlier announcements, the new government should be formed by the PDK and Pacolli's New Kosovo Alliance (AKR).
Pristina-based Albanian language daily Koha Ditore claims, quoting reliable sources, that eight out of ten PDK MPs will not support Pacolli because they want current Acting President Jakup Krasniqi to get the position.
They are hoping that the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) will also support Krasniqi because of his readiness to be principled.
A DPK high official, who wanted to remain anonymous, said that "those who support Krasniqi" had had a meeting the previous day in order to express their dissatisfaction with their party leader who had failed to keep them informed during the forming of new institutions.
"It was decided at the meeting to send a message to Thaci that he cannot cast aside people who formed the party and who won the majority of people's votes. The message showed Thaci that only Jakup Krasniqi can be chosen as president," the daily's source stressed.
The constitutive session of the Kosovo Assembly will be held on February 24.
