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Director of the Institute for Public Health "Batut", Verica Jovanovi, stated today that the hospitals are full, that more than 9.500 COVID patients are being treated in them, and that the number of admissions is still higher than the number of discharges.

Kosovo's electoral system favours alliances. Yet the co-ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, part of four successive governments since Kosovo's 2008 secession from Serbia, looks like being left out in the cold, raising doubts about its chances of retaining power.

Kosovo President, Hashim Thaci, has invited representatives of political parties to a consultative meeting which will be held on 24 July, Gazeta Express reported.

The latest journalist to make the transfer into politics in the country is renowned journalist and chief of Kosovo's Radio Free Europe service, Arber Vllahiu. He joined Ramush Haradinaj's Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, AAK.
 

Kosovo's political scene ahead of the June 11 early parliamentary elections is divided into "the war wing" and "the coalition of peace," according to Beta.

Two opposition parties in Kosovo, the Alliance for the future of Kosovo, AAK, and Nisma, have said they will go into the next elections under a joint nominee for the post of Prime Minister, AAK leader Ramush Haradinaj.

Political observers in Kosovo predict the likely end of a "united" opposition in the country after two opposition parties drafted a cooperation agreement without the presence of the third, the Vetevendsoje [Self-Determination] movement.

Police in Kosovo have now detained more than a third of opposition MPs following Monday's unrest, when MPs again disrupted parliament by setting off tear gas on two separate occasions.

In an apparent change of tactics after the recent violence, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) party said it would hold peaceful rallies outside the capital starting on Saturday.

Kosovo police arrested Donika Kadaj-Bujupi, an MP from the opposition Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, AAK, for letting off tear gas in parliament.

"She was arrested after she left her home," Muharrem Nitaj, an AAK spokesperson, told BIRN.

Kadaj-Bujupi was arrested on Wednesday morning for setting off tear gas inside the chamber and sent to Pristina's District Court.