Yesterday the Kosovo assembly elected Bexhet Pacolli to be President of Kosovo. AKR announced that Pacolli had stepped down as party leader and from his party duties following the vote. The voting took two rounds, plus a break requested by PDK, before Pacolli finally gathered enough votes to be elected president. Both the Assembly speaker, Jakup Krasniqi, and Vetevendosje have criticized the PDK request for break to be unconstitutional however it was still allowed. Leaders of AAK and Vetevendosje have vowed to do everything in their power to end the coalition before the four-year term is completed giving even more credence to the speculation that the new shaky coalition may not last through to the end of 2011. There are rumors that another round of elections will be held in September but only time will tell if the PDK-AKR-Minority coalition is strong enough to weather the criticism and strong opposition.
In other Kosovo-related news, a
massive brawl between rival Kosovo Albanian gangs broke out on 17 February in London's Trafalgar Square resulting in the stabbing of three persons and the arrest of 19. Fights have been reportedly breaking out over the
past three years since Kosovo declared independence.
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