Kosovo’s opposition parties need to suggest as well as scrutinize
Lack of coordination and policy suggestions preventing effective opposition in parliament.
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For most of 2018, the opposition at the Kosovo Assembly seem to have been in competition over who is initiating more scrutiny while their input into policy-making has been modest at best.
Increased activities
Kosovo’s current opposition parties have shown their ability to scrutinize the government, what it needs to do now is to confirm its policy-making credentials.
Blerim Vela
Blerim Vela is a PhD researcher on Contemporary European Studies at the University of Sussex in the UK. His research focuses on the influence of the EU accession process on the functioning of the national parliaments of candidate states in the Western Balkans. In the past he has worked for WFD, UNDP and OSCE in different countries.
DISCLAIMERThe views of the writer do not necessarily reflect the views of Kosovo 2.0.
This story was originally written in English.