Democratic League of Kosovo MP Jehona Lushaku also spoke about the LDK's proposal for a 'unity government.' She said that in such a government version, all parties would be represented to address the country's priorities for a while.
Lushaku-Sadriu said that this would not be long-term, but until the next elections, which she said would potentially take place when it is time to elect the country's new president.
"We are saying with the proportions that we represent in the Assembly. This ensures proportional legitimacy in an executive. It is nothing long-term, it will be in a certain period with certain objectives where everyone would agree, even on the names of who would be included in the executive. We are not saying that this would be the model that would lead Kosovo in the next four years, no, until the next elections that could potentially be when it is the turn to elect the president," she said.
Lushaku-Sadriu called the invitation that Vetëvendosje leader Albin Kurti sent to LDK leader Lumir Abdixhiku for a coalition not serious and a public insult.
"We have responded to the invitation he made because we saw that the invitation was not serious. It came through public channels without any discussion. Those of us who have studied political science know that coalitions become serious when there are serious conversations, not necessarily made public, but conversations built on principles, programs, deadlines and that come up with results. But, to have an invitation that has the first three paragraphs as populist wordplay with you and your history, at the end saying 'why don't you do it with me if you have done it with others'. This is not a serious invitation, but a public insult", she said in an interview on RTK.
She said that the LDK's stance of not voting for the speaker of parliament is due to many reasons.
Lushaku-Sadriu said that the LDK electorate is demanding that there be no coalition with the Vetëvendosje Movement.
"The LDK's stance not to vote for the speaker of parliament is for many reasons. It is towards Vetëvendosje as a political party, it is as a consistency of stance towards what it represented during the campaign, and we expect the party to secure a majority. It is not the LDK saying this, but the Constitution gives the first one within the parliament the right to propose the speaker of the Assembly. For this reason, we expect the first one to use the opportunity to reach a political agreement that is healthy for the country, which also provides a product that could be a political agreement that is also crowned with the executive," she said for RTK.
Lushaku said that Vetëvendosje is unwilling to hand over executive power. "We are seeing them occupying executive positions, while 17 of them have taken the oath as MPs and are simultaneously exercising the role of the executive," she added.
Asked if LDK is pushing for a possible coalition between LVV and PDK, Lushaku said that as a party they do not presume who should be with whom. "We show our positions as a party. We have the MPs we have and we are all unique and very comfortable in what we represent. We have represented a program, a platform with which we have competed in the elections and we have criticized Vetevendosje for a governance that is not only weak and incompetent, but now we see it as harmful."
Lushaku said that we do not want to form a coalition at this stage also because of the discourse that LVV has used, especially towards LDK.
"Each political party must have the weight of public speech, and maintain a political atmosphere by not causing polarization among citizens. Our electorate rightly asks us not to form this coalition, and we will not do this," she said.
The LDK MP said that the alignment should be ideological and programmatic. "Vetëvendosje is a left-wing party, sometimes extremely so. In every coalition that has existed throughout history and in other countries since then, coalitions that are not based on principles or programs fail or someone from the parties pays the bill," said Lushaku-Sadriu.
