Citizens of Pristina: Politicians are wasting time while the people suffer due to the failure to form institutions

The citizens of Pristina do not view the ongoing institutional crisis in Kosovo, which has now been lasting for four months, favorably. In conversations with reporters from Kosovo Online, they say that in such a situation, it is the ordinary people who suffer the most.

Selim Vala warns that the inability of leading parties to reach an agreement is creating a political situation that benefits no one.

"This doesn't suit anyone. I don't know what they are doing. People here are suffering, they want to have a government, a parliament. Politicians, all parties are just wasting time," Vala emphasizes.

On the other hand, Shub Bajrami expects that institutions will be formed soon because it is the people who are paying the price.

"I don't know what to say, probably the people. It is pretty difficult, there are still no institutions, but I hope there will be soon," Bajrami says.

One Albanian who works in Germany and often visits Pristina states with resignation that it is clear who is paying the price.

"The people, who else?" he said.

Other interviewees are also convinced that everyone is suffering due to the failure to form institutions.

"Everyone is suffering. The citizens the most, that is obvious," one passerby briefly commented.

Most of the interviewees do not point fingers at a specific "culprit."

"Someone is to blame, but I don't know who. We are the ones suffering," Erol said briefly.

Others are convinced that someone will have to “pay” for this situation.

"Someone will pay. There is plenty of money, but the poor man gets nothing," another interviewee said for Kosovo Online.

One interviewee, who introduced himself as Osmani, believes that the people are to blame for the current situation because they elected the members of parliament and the government.

"The people. The people, because they elect a government that is not for the country. A government that accuses the best generation of the KLA is not a government. Nowhere in the world can the KLA be punished by any country. But the people don't know how to choose their leaders," Osmani said confidently.