Mar 02 2025 38 mins
The first episode of the Votes & Seats podcast’s 5th season flies us to the heart of the Balkans. Thanks to the most valuable professional insights from Mr. Mehdi Sejdiu, we were lucky to have the bigger picture about the background, the circumstances, and the main conclusions of the February 2025 legislative election in Kosovo.
Our guest expert pointed out that the internal cohesion of the governing coalition made Albin Kurti’s cabinet successful in completing a full 4-year term and winning the subsequent election. In the 2025 campaign, the governing Vetëvendosje party's rhetoric was not targeted against other political formations but towards business corporations and media outlets for their alleged interference in politics and state affairs. Kurti, in exchange, was criticized for having caused instability by the dismantling of parallel Serbian-Kosovan institutions in the areas of the country where ethnic Serbs give the majority, a governmental initiative that led to the EU introducing unfavorable measures against Kosovo – Mr. Sejdiu added.
Fancy knowing more about the social-political cleavages in the youngest state of the Balkans?
Interested in the current state-of-the-art of certain political aspirations aiming at the unification of Kosovo and Albania?
Tired of the newsportals’ black-and-white narratives and wanna get a more sophisticated opinion about the prospects of the Prishtina-Belgrade dialogue in light of these countries’ EU accession endeavors?
Then, here is your best chance to quench your thirst for a more complex knowledge about the political mosaic of Kosovo.
With the help of guest experts and politicians, in the podcast series of MCC’s Centre for Political Science we endeavor to analyze which actors are the real winners of the parliamentary and municipal elections taking place this year in different European countries and what exactly can be considered a real victory after the ballot counts.