Nasser Krasniqi
Kosovo today does not simply face a political crisis or another election cycle. It faces a deeper and more dangerous crisis: the lack of functional justice, a politics that has lost its state-building mission, and a history that is being left without institutional protection. These three gaps feed each other and keep the state in a permanent state of uncertainty and fragility.
The dissolution of the Assembly and the announcement of early elections for December 28 are not a solution, but a consequence. They testify to a political system that has failed to create functional institutions, minimal consensus and state accountability. For almost a year, Kosovo has functioned with a government in office and blocked decision-making, while citizens have become accustomed to the idea that dysfunction is normal.
The problem is not just institutional – it is a crisis of justice. A state that tolerates impunity, relativizes political responsibility and selectively enforces the law loses the moral authority to demand trust from its citizens. For years, Kosovo has been governed on the unspoken principle of “stability before justice”. This compromise has produced false calm and real injustice – transforming exceptions into the rule, not the deviation.
Elections have become a ritual without content. All parties declare victory, even when the results show decline and defeat. Minimal percentages are presented as historic triumphs, while political responsibility disappears as soon as the ballot boxes are closed. Electoral lists are filled with improvised figures, where “worthiness” is measured by fame, not by vision or intellectual preparation. Campaigns are reduced to personal attacks and empty slogans, while the debate about the state, justice and the future remains on the periphery.
Politics in Kosovo has lost its fundamental mission: representing the public interest and building the state. It has become a competition for electoral survival and internal party control. The deep crisis of the PDK – from a post-war symbol to a party with an unclear identity and internal conflict – is just one example of what happens when ideals are replaced by interests and the mission is ultimately lost.
Kosovo is failing to protect its most sensitive history. The lack of an international genocide indictment against Serbia, the reluctance to address political resolutions, and the institutional silence on revisionist narratives create a dangerous historical vacuum.
The trials in The Hague are legally individual, but their consequences are collective. When the state does not clearly articulate the truth of the war, the history of liberation risks being reduced to criminal files, stripped of the context of self-defense and the liberation cause.
The KLA does not need mythology, but institutional protection from criminalization. A state that does not protect its history allows others to rewrite it – often according to political and geopolitical interests.
The December 28 elections could be an opportunity for reflection – or a recycling of the same crisis. They only make sense if they are accompanied by real political and civic change. Otherwise, they will once again produce fragile institutions, politics without a mission, and a state without justice.
Voting should not be an act of habit or fear, but an act of civic responsibility. Without this awareness, elections will not bring solutions, but will only postpone the crisis for another term.
Kosovo exists as a state, but it is in danger of remaining without substance. Without functional justice, without politics with a mission, and without institutional protection of history, the freedom gained through sacrifice is remaining untranslated into a stable and dignified state.
The question that remains is not who will win the elections, but whether Kosovo still has the political and moral will to become a state with justice, politics with a mission, and a protected history.
Without this will, crises will not be the exception – they will be the rule.
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