Kosovo's new assembly composition as "family affair"

Photo: Reuters (2012)

A specific feature of the new Kosovo parliament is that party leaders have made sure to also bring in their family members.

Pristina-based Albanian language newspaper Zeri is reporting this, adding that brothers Daut and Ramush Haradinaj are both now members of the Assembly in Pristina - with the latter being one of the candidates to form the next government in Kosovo, on behalf of the coalition gathered around President Hashim Thaci's party, the PDK.

Leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo "and one of the richest Albanians in Europe, perhaps in the world," Behgjet Pacolli , is also expected to enter the Assembly along with a family member, Islam Pacolli.

At the same time, leader of the radical Self-Determination Movement Visar Imeri could serve as MP together with is nephew, Ade Batushi.

Thaci's nephew Evgjeni Thaci Dragusha,...