In a country where over 90 percent of the population is Albanian, the debates swing now around Duda Balje, now around Nenad Rašić, and always around the Serb List. This is a cheap method to avoid the real debate: the inability of Albanian political parties to form a coalition and govern for the good of the country. Very soon, we will see who pays the highest price for this masquerade.
By: Enver Robelli
What is already evident is that months of political crisis have driven many people into despair, to the point where they see salvation only in leaving Kosovo. Beyond the public noise, this is the greatest crime being inflicted upon Kosovar society: the loss of faith in a livable future.
Nenad Rašić has for years cooperated with Albanian-majority political parties. For that reason, he has been—and remains—a target of propaganda from the regime in Belgrade. Once stigmatized as “Thaçi’s Serb” or “Isa Mustafa’s Serb,” today he is branded as “Albin Kurti’s Serb.” The repression of Serbia has long weighed on Rašić’s family as well.
Meanwhile, in the Serbian parliament, Shaip Kamberi, the MP from the Presheva Valley, is labeled as the representative of Albanian nationalism in Kosovo. Public opinion in Kosovo should not behave and drool like the political hooligans in power in Serbia—this time against Nenad Rašić. Kosovo’s Serbs must enjoy all the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. They must be able to live without fear in their homes. And they cannot—and must not—be treated as the “perpetual culprits” for every failure, folly, disgrace, and wrongdoing of Kosovo’s Albanian politicians.
This political crisis was not created by Nenad Rašić, but by the immaturity of the Albanian-majority parties. Each of them is scrambling to pass the hot potato into the rival’s hands, hoping to cash it in during local elections and, above all, in the anticipated early national elections.