PDK says “no” to Kurti’s proposal, Hoxhaj on “Real Story”: It is the language of blackmail and an unserious proposal, we will not submit

One of the leaders of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Enver Hoxhaj, said his party says “no” to the offer made a few minutes earlier by Albin Kurti regarding the issue of electing the president.

Albin Kurti proposed two names and invited the PDK to give its votes, after which an Assembly session would be called for the vote on the Law on the Specialist Chambers.

He stressed that this proposal is not serious and that Kurti’s language is blackmail.

According to Hoxhaj, the PDK does not submit to Kurti’s pressure.

“It is not a serious approach by Kurti, since the election of the president has been a topic in Kosovo since 4 March of this year and since 4 April, when Vjosa Osmani’s term as president expired, we have been without a president.

To have a situation where in the final hours there is a proposal for who could be president, unilaterally, without genuine dialogue with the political parties, I do not think is a serious matter. The citizens of Kosovo have understood that we have gone to elections because Kurti wants us to go to elections.

If we see the matter of the Specialist Court’s judgment in The Hague on 16 September and Kosovo’s reaction as a matter of national interest, where the opposition must unite with the government, because without being united at home and without American and Western support we cannot win the battle at the Court of Appeal, which will be a complicated process, but the way Kurti presented it is more a blackmail of the opposition. We do not submit to such blackmail.

This court has criminalised the freedom and independence of Kosovo. We want Kosovo to have a president, but I do not think the approach is the right one: ‘Either vote for this, or we go to elections.’ That is a language of blackmail and, as PDK deputies, we do not submit to such language. The PDK’s answer is no,” he told ABC News.