Hasani: Kurti will not risk going to elections because of Vjosa Osmani

Former President of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo Enver Hasani said he does not believe that Albin Kurti would “risk new elections” because of Vjosa Osmani, stressing that the leader of the Self-Determination Movement “can never secure for himself, nor for anyone else, the comfort of independently deciding on the formation of a government and the election of the President of Kosovo.”

Speaking about the results of the parliamentary elections held on 28 December, Hasani assessed that the decisive factors were the “spending of enormous amounts of public money to win the elections” and the “lack of active political resistance” from the opposition, which, in his view, meant that the vote was neither free nor fair, reports Ekonomia Online.

He added that Brussels and Washington have only one concern regarding Kurti’s rule—“the implementation of the Ohrid Annex, that is, putting into effect Serbian autonomy, which Mr. Kurti accepted in Ohrid in 2023.” Hasani emphasized that “strengthening Serbian autonomy is the only solution to protect Kosovo Serbs from the central authorities.”

The Constitutional Court of Kosovo is currently considering the issue of a Deputy Speaker of the Assembly from the ranks of the Serb List, and Hasani recalled that the deputy speaker should be “from among the members of the Assembly who hold the guaranteed seats of the Serbian community.”

“Mr. Rasic represents the Serbian community, but he is not the majority of Serbian MPs in the Kosovo Assembly. He may be a good man and a Kosovo patriot, reasonable and the like, but those qualities apply when one is being considered as a son-in-law, not as a representative of a Kosovo community. Representation is determined by votes and on the basis of the Constitution and the law,” Hasani said.