Muharremi: “Four cases, four failures” — column challenges LVV voters
Writing in Nacionale, Shenoll Muharremi argues that Vetëvendosje voters must reconsider their support after a string of governance failures — an argument worth scrutinising.
PRISHTINA — In a column published by the Pristina-based outlet Nacionale, commentator Shenoll Muharremi advances a sharp thesis: voters of the Vetëvendosje Movement (LVV) ought to take a cold inventory of what they have gained from their political choice, and the result, in her telling, is a series of failures that demand “time for change”.
Muharremi enumerates four concrete cases — ranging from economic and social policy to relations with international partners and the management of state institutions — to support her claim that early enthusiasm for the Kurti government has turned into disenchantment. The column’s central argument is that political loyalty should not survive poor outcomes, and that Kosovo’s democracy needs sustained civic scrutiny rather than unconditional backing.
The piece sits within a long opinion tradition in Kosovo, in which journalists hold the governing party to account regardless of ideological sympathies. At Nacionale, this register frequently engages issues of transparency, public procurement and EU relations.
Context
Muharremi’s argument should be read against a long political cycle in which LVV has won successive mandates on robust pledges to fight corruption, restore the rule of law and renew institutions. Critics of the government argue that many of those pledges remain on paper; supporters counter that structural reforms take years, not months.
A balanced reading would acknowledge that some of the “failures” the author lists are contested rather than settled verdicts. Public policy is rarely two-toned; even so, her call for a cool-headed review of outcomes is legitimate, especially as polling shows declining civic confidence.
Paraphrasing Muharremi, citizens should not vote for a name or symbol, but for measurable results — and when those are absent, accountability falls on whoever holds power, not on the opposition.
What makes the column useful is less the catalogue of failures than its demand for a civic culture that judges governance against objective benchmarks. Whether or not one agrees with every point, the debate it provokes is a healthy feature of Kosovo’s democracy.
Source: Nacionale — Opinion column by Shenoll Muharremi