Kurti: Kosovo the most democratic in the Balkans – containers, armored vehicles, cameras, and long guns

Written by Veljko Nestorovic, editor of Kosovo Online

Citizens are protesting, but the situation in the city is calm while Serbian churches are burning, the RTK correspondent from Djakovica reported during the 2004 pogrom.

In a similar manner, 20 years later, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti stated last night.

"Holding elections to replace mayors was key criteria for lifting measures against Kosovo by the European Union. These unfair measures should be lifted as soon as possible after today's voting," Kurti said, who regularly boasts that "Kosovo is the most democratic country in the Western Balkans."

Representatives of the Kosovo government, as well as some foreign diplomats, were pleased that there were no incidents, and now that there was no one to vote, that seems to be secondary. Now it seems that the lifting of EU sanctions against Kosovo is up next, and why not even admission to a new international organization for organizing this "festival of democracy."

For the failure of the referendum in the north, where only 0.56% of eligible voters participated, Kurti blamed Belgrade and the Serb List, while foreign diplomats and representatives of the Quint stated that the voting had not succeeded and expressed regret over the Serb List's boycott.

None of the Quint representatives, EU, US... seemingly saw the installed containers, armored vehicles, special forces of the Kosovo Police in municipal buildings where voting took place, ballot boxes placed upside down to see how you vote, cameras recording everything, members of electoral boards speaking only Albanian and unable to communicate in Serbian... Maybe it is the same in their countries during elections.

God forbid it is not as "most democratic" as Kurti claims, because then how would yesterday's referendum in northern Kosovo look – maybe we would see scenes that we, unfortunately, witnessed in Gaza in recent weeks.

Considering that the referendum or Pristina's administrative guidance was ultimately supported by the EU, Quint, US... maybe now the recipe for "most democratic conditions in the Western Balkans" should be applied to the upcoming elections in Germany, France, or another European country, or perhaps the presidential elections in the United States.

Just imagine in elections in Germany having only those who speak only French in the electoral boards, and in France only those who speak only German. And a couple of armored vehicles in front of each polling station, of course. That's the Franco-German plan.

Imagine also Biden or Trump voting in a container. How they vote, come out of the container, and boast about how these are the most democratic elections in US history.

Now, regarding the containers and heaters, it is hard to find such "high technology" in the EU or the US, so the Government of Kosovo would have to borrow or donate these technological marvels for voting on the soil of the Old Continent in the 21st century.

Who really needed to hold the "referendum" at all costs? The results are clear – in Leposavic, 124 people voted, in North Mitrovica 111, in Zubin Potok 18, and in Zvecan, NO ONE showed up. A total of 0.54% of people voted compared to the voter list.

And so, in the end, if it weren't sad, it would truly be funny to put Albin Kurti and the word democracy in the same sentence.