Kosovans look on aghast as government falls while coronavirus bites
Egged on by Trump
- for the chance to boost his reelection chances even a tiny bit
No surprise, he is sacrificing Americans for his reelection, so why not foreigners too
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/26/kosovo-government-falls-in-vote-of-no-confidence
A domestic power struggle, disputes over how best to tackle coronavirus and a split between US and European foreign policy have all combined to bring down the government in Kosovo,
plunging the country into constitutional chaos just when it should be devising a local response to the pandemic.
🤦🏻♀️
The government of the prime minister, Albin Kurti, lost a no-confidence vote brought by one of its own coalition partners late on Wednesday evening, by 82 votes to 32, with one abstention.
It came after a tempestuous 12-hour debate in parliament.
In Kosovo, there was disbelief at the timing of the move.
In recent days, residents have taken to banging pots and pans on their balconies to express their disgust at the timing of the political upheaval.
< fuck me, the politicians are lucky not to be hanging from lampposts 
- lucky for them ^their poor bloody people are in lockdown >
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The White House has been pushing for a deal between Belgrade and Pristina to be inked this year,
in what would be seen as a triumph of diplomacy for Trump.
While Thaçi has been amenable to US moves, Kurti was more sceptical, worried that a deal would involve making too many concessions to Serbia.
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These tensions came to the surface ahead of the no-confidence vote,
as European capitals reacted with horror to the vote of no confidence even as the US ambassador was egging it on.
The French and German ambassadors sent a terse note to the LDK on Tuesday asking it “to reconsider the no-confidence vote and maintain trusted and stable government to face challenges”.
However, hours later, the US ambassador, Philip Kosnett, wrote on Twitter that he was “pleased” the vote would take place.
< bastard >
“We’ve never had a transatlantic split or the west speaking in different voices,”
said Agon Maliqi, a political analyst.
< we've never had a psychopthic narcissist as POTUS before >