The elected MP of the Gorani United Party, Adem Hoxha, said on Tuesday that his party still has doubts about whether to support the leader of the Vetëvendosje Movement and the acting Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, in forming the new government.
"Kurti and no one is stopping me. But I have questioned [the support], considering the experience we have had with Prime Minister Kurti in the past four years," Hoxha emphasized to Radio Free Europe.
Hoxha did not explain what their experience with Kurti was during his past four-year mandate, nor what his conditions would be for voting for Kurti for a third term.
Hoxha was among the non-Serb minority party officials Kurti met with on April 3 to discuss the formation of the country's new government.
He added that in the new composition of the Assembly, MPs from non-Serb minorities are trying to create a joint parliamentary group, of which he will also be a part.
In case an agreement is not reached to create a joint group, he said he could join the parliamentary group of any party, Albanian or non-Albanian.
Hoxha - who in the past was part of the Serbian List Parliamentary Group - denied that there was any kind of pressure from "Serbia or anyone else", after the Kosovo Security Council said days earlier that Serbia was attempting to sabotage the "establishment of new institutions" and the ninth legislature, to emerge from the February 9 parliamentary elections.
"No one from Serbia has called me, I have not received any threats, blackmail or suggestions," Hoxha emphasized to REL.
Although he insisted that he had not received any suggestions from the Serbian List, Hoxha admitted that he continues to cooperate with the main party of Kosovo Serbs, which enjoys the support of official Belgrade.
He insisted that it is "natural" to cooperate with the Serbian List and said that there is also cooperation with Albanian parties, such as the Democratic Party of Kosovo, the Democratic League of Kosovo and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo.
"All of us who have been elected by the people must cooperate in a way that is in the interest of Kosovo and its people," said Hoxha.
A few days after Kurti's efforts to convince non-Serb minority parties to vote for his government, the deputy leader of the Vetëvendosje Movement, Glauk Konjufca, said on Tuesday that he does not believe that the formation of a new government is possible without the inclusion of opposition parties in the governing coalition.
Vetëvendosje won the February 9 elections, with around 42 percent of the vote, or 48 seats out of 120 in the Kosovo Assembly.
It needed at least 61 seats to form the new government.
Kurti counted on 10 MPs from non-Serb minority parties./ REL (A2 Televizion)
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