Democratic Party of Kosovo

If this can be used for PR, I think it could be used in a way.

We see from Democratic Party of Kosovo, they are, um, is a party which Thaci led previously and Veseli, so they are all the time joining the protest Also, uh, MPs from other political parties, which we see every day that the leaders of this party are joining the protest.

But it's very important to, uh, really have the separation between Hashim Thaci as a politician after the war, and Hashim Thaci as the man who is, uh, being accused there, uh, by the specialist chambers for being convicted.

Sorry, because now, uh, it was so long, such a long process, and we are still thinking of, uh, uh, uh, of them as accused.

This nearly happened, but at the last moment, uh, failed because of the internal tensions within LDK.

The second one is the scenario of cooperation between Vetëvendosje and, uh, PDK, which would have been unimaginable before 16th of September because PDK wanted to stay out of any, any cooperation with other political parties, hesitant towards Vetëvendosje, betting on Thaci's return.

However, this might have changed in the past days as PDK is looming on the horizon.

The idea offering full support for any presidential candidate for Vet- Vetëvendosje in exchange of Vetëvendosje support for their initiative to change the law on special court, which was initiated after the, um, verdict.

Now, this brings us to the next issue I wanted to talk, which is the verdict of the special court, which is causing seismic shifts in Kosovo because we are talking about a 25-year sentence for Thaci and Krasniqi, 18 for Veseli, and 13 for Selimi.

In Kosovo, that country's parliament re-elected Prime Minister Albin Kurti on Sunday, but it may not matter because, somewhat inexplicably, it still failed to elect a president.

While the two largest parties in the legislature, Kurtis Vetevendosia and the Democratic Party of Kosovo, LDK, agreed a couple of weeks ago to back a joint candidate for president—we covered this in the newsletter— Several of the latter's MPs have decided to revolt against that deal.

Any presidential vote requires a two-thirds quorum in parliament to be official, and those LDK rebels are able to join with other MPs to prevent the legislature from reaching that threshold.

Failure to elect a president will trigger a snap election, which would be Kosovo's fourth in the last two years.