2023-07-13 16:32:31
The deputies of the Kosovo Parliament ended with blows this Thursday, after having started a fight between members of the opposition and several government ministers, including the governor, Albin Kurti.
As explained by the Kosovo Sevver Portal, the dispute breaks out when the prime minister was talking about the de-escalation plan in the north of Kosovo, where the Serb minority of the Balkan country is concentrated.
During these statements, the deputy of the opposition Democratic Party of Kosovo, Ganimeta Musliju, posted a picture of him with a long nose (as an illustration of his nose growing like Pinocchio due to lies).
Kurti’s deputy prime minister and close associate Besnik Bisljimi got up from his parliamentary bench and tore up this photo, then put it back in its place. After that, PDK deputy Mergim Ljuštak approached them and poured water on Aljbin Kurtito later spill some more liquid in the direction of Besnik Bisljimi.
Bisljimi immediately hit him with a glass bottle. Then a fistfight broke out between dozens of people, including deputies and ministers, until the president of Parliament called the police to calm the situation. Meanwhile, the bodyguards had already led the prime minister away from the crowd.
Both parties involved in the incident they accuse each other of its responsibility. Opponents criticize the left-wing nationalist Kurti for his policies, especially for tensions with the Serbs and the lack of coordination with the United States and other Western powers, which they consider to be the main supporters of his independence unilaterally proclaimed in 2008.
The European Union, mediator in the normalization dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, has frozen some community funds to Pristina due to Kurti’s reluctance to comply with his demands to reduce tensions in the north.
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