TIRANA – The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) has proposed Avdullah Hoti as its first nominee for Prime Minister of the new government of Kosovo, shortly after President Hashim Thaçi requested a name for a possible nominee.
Avdullah Hoti, who served as deputy was dismissed by Prime Minister Albin Kurti for voting against his government in the vote of no-confidence on March 25.
The LDK has already reached an agreement in principle with the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, the Social Democratic Initiative, the New Kosovo Alliance and the national minority parties represented in parliament to form the new government.
In the meantime outgoing Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said he would not stop citizens of Kosovo from protesting in public on May 4 against the formation of a new government under a different leader without fresh legislative elections.
“Citizens have never been angrier; I can’t stop them from protesting, but I can’t say that this protest was organised by us,” Kurti told BIRN Kosovo’s TV show Life in Kosovo.
Kurti, also leader of the Vetevendosje movement, LVV, said he would not engage in the organisation of such protests. “If I have to return to the position of LVV chairman in the active sense of the word, then we must gather the leadership and make decisions – but this is not a protest that we have initiated,” Kurti said./argumentum.al