The profile of the next president of Kosovo was the subject of discussion between the Vetëvendosje Movement and the Democratic League of Kosovo at a meeting on Tuesday night.
The leaders of the two parties, Albin Kurti and Lumir Abdixhiku, did not reveal specific names, saying that they would discuss them with their parties first, but Professor Ibrahim Berisha and the deputy speaker of the Provincial Assembly in the 1990s, Iljaz Ramajli, were learned to be the two names mentioned at the meeting.
Berisha himself refused to get involved in the presidential discussions, saying that his focus remains on culture, literature and communication, while Ramajli's family said that he will not accept being a candidate. According to insiders, the Vetëvendosje Movement is looking for a figure who will not be a challenger to Albin Kurti.
"The Vetëvendosje Movement is looking for a president who is, let's say, not ambitious in politics, but a man whose career has almost expired and as such is not a competitor to Mr. Kurti, but is more like a housekeeper," said Arnbor Sadiku, an analyst.
Kurti and Abdixhiku have agreed to propose concrete names for president at the next meeting, but experts are not optimistic that there will be a solution to the presidential issue.
"We can say that it is true that there is little hope that an option can be found due to the fact that the largest party, the Vetëvendosje Movement, has been clear from the beginning that it intends for the country to go to elections," he said.
Kosovo has had an acting president since the end of Vjosa Osmani's term. Due to the failure to elect a new president, the country went to extraordinary elections on June 7.
Since then, Kosovo has not had functional institutions, as the Assembly has not even been constituted as foreseen within the constitutional deadline.
