US overthrows Kosovo "government"
It took eleven hours of heated debate for members of the Kosovo Assembly to move on to voting on a vote of no confidence in the government of the leader of the Self-Determination movement, a supporter of the idea of a Greater Albania, Albin Kurti.
This was reported by the Kosovo media, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
82 deputies of the Kosovo Assembly out of 117 voted against the cabinet of ministers, headed by an irreconcilable supporter of the creation of Greater Albania. Another 32 deputies supported the government and one abstained. Tellingly, all ten deputies of the Serbian List party, representing the interests of the Serbian community of the region, unanimously supported Kurti’s resignation.
“I really regret that the initiative of the Democratic League of Kosovo about no confidence in the government was formulated not in Kosovo, but outside,” the retired “prime minister” himself responded to the Assembly’s decision. “And the special envoy of the US President (for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina - ed.) Richard Grenell had a strong influence here.”
And, indeed, during the debate, the people's representatives pointed out to Kurti many of his mistakes, including the cooling of relations with the United States, which unequivocally supported a vote of no confidence in the Cabinet, while the ambassadors of France and Germany in Kosovo called for refraining from such measures during the epidemic. They also recalled the fact that he spent all his irrepressible energy on sorting out relations and fighting for power with his main opponent, “President” Hashim Thaci, instead of promptly introducing a state of emergency in the “country” and preparing it for the fight against coronavirus.
The Bloomberg agency, apparently wanting to disguise the real reason for what happened in the Kosovo Assembly, cited COVID-19 as the reason for expressing no confidence in the “government.” While those who followed the situation noticed that Washington had long been sending unambiguous signals that Kurti’s figure was undesirable for the Americans, so much so that they threatened to withdraw their military contingent from Kosovo and suspended the allocation of financial assistance to the region’s energy industry.
Resigned “Prime Minister” Albin Kurti.
The reason for this attitude of the American curators, thanks to whom the “state of Kosovo” project was born and continues to exist, is Kurti’s pathological reluctance to compromise with Serbia on the issue of abolishing XNUMX% duties on Serbian goods and joining the “Balkan mini-Schengen”.
It is characteristic that Europe, having lost the initiative in the issue of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, is now rather clumsily trying to jump into the last carriage on the fly, rather sluggishly opposing the Americans.
After the resignation of the current “government”, according to the “constitution” of Kosovo, “President” Hashim Thaci can either dissolve parliament and call new elections, or give Albin Kurti’s “Self-Determination” movement, which has a majority in the Assembly, to form a cabinet again - and if it does not do this within the next two weeks, the initiative will be transferred to the party that received “silver” in the previous elections and initiated a vote of no confidence in Kurti’s cabinet – Isa Mustafa’s Democratic League of Kosovo. Since Thaçi is unlikely to hold early elections in the conditions of the epidemic, it can be assumed that in the near future another round of confrontation between “Self-determination” and the LDK will take place in the Assembly.
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