The Parliament of Kosovo Hashim Thaci has chosen the president of the republic – RIA Novosti

BELGRADE, February 26 – RIA Novosti The Parliament of breakaway Kosovo elected Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci the president in the third round of voting by a majority of 71 votes, said Friday the information portal Kossev

The legislation of Kosovo assumes two rounds of voting, in which a presidential candidate must receive two-thirds majority of all members of parliament, and the third circle, which is enough to have voted for him more than half of the deputies. If a candidate does not gain the necessary number of votes shall be appointed new parliamentary elections

In the first round Thaci received 50 votes of the deputies of the necessary 80, in the second -. 64 votes. In the third he managed to gain the necessary 71 votes parliamentarians support.

The vote was preceded by several hours of debate and three incidents spray tear gas. The author of the first incident on Friday was the deputy of the opposition “Alliance for the Future of Kosovo” Teuta Haxhiu. The second bomb, tear gas after the break activated MP from radical Kosovo Albanian movement “Self-determination” Ismail Kurteshi.

The third attempt to disrupt the meeting also made oppositionist of “self-determination” Shkipe Pantin, but the sputtering gas has had time to prevent the security service. Protesters in front of the Assembly of the radicals at the time of voting threw “Molotov cocktails” at the parliament building. The police force ousted them from the square in front of Parliament using tear gas and water cannons.

The split among the Kosovo Albanians caused by the nomination of Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Hashim Thaci for the presidency, has led to increased measures security, government quarter has been blocked since Friday morning by police. Adjacent to the Assembly (Parliament) of the street took the machine with water jets. In order to avoid clashes with the opposition PDK called on his supporters to abandon the celebration of the expected victory in Pristina.

The opposition activists on Tuesday evening staged a camp in front of the Parliament building and protested against the choice Thaci for the post of president. Opponents of the current Kosovo authorities, the supporters of the opposition parties “Self-Determination”, “Alliance for the Future of Kosovo” and “Initiative for Kosovo”, demanding the government’s resignation and the holding of elections to the parliament of the breakaway republic in March or April 2016.

President the self-proclaimed republic of Kosovo is elected by the parliament according to the constitution. The mandate of the current president Atifete Jahjaga will expire on April 6.

On the Kosovo parliamentary elections in June 2014 DPK of former Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), the future head of government of Isa Mustafa signed a coalition agreement. The agreement between the two parties assumed that Yahyagu in office will replace the current deputy prime minister and head of Thaci Foreign Ministry

In the vote only two candidates were put up on Friday -. The head of the KDP and his fellow party member and former colleague in the Liberation Army Kosovo (KLA) Rafet Rama

The leader of the Democratic party of Kosovo Hashim Thaci -. one of the founders of the KLA, former field commander with the call sign “Snake”. In 1997, he was sentenced in absentia by a court in Pristina, Serb to 10 years for terrorism. From 2008 to 2010 he headed the government declared independence from Serbia in Kosovo. The report of the members of the Parliamentary Council of Dick Marty PACE in 2010. Thaci named as one of the leading international trade network in drugs and human organs.

The opposition of “self-determination”, “Alliance for the Future of Kosovo” and “Initiative for Kosovo” who disagree with the policies of the ruling party, the KDP Deputy Prime Minister Thaci and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, the last three months of 2015 repeatedly threw bombs tear gas into the parliament building. Their supporters in the streets rioted and clashed with police.

The main, but not only the claims of the protesters to the authorities are signed by Pristina and Belgrade an agreement on the early formation of the Kosovo Communities Serbian communities with rights of autonomy and the agreement of official Pristina Podgorica with the definition of the state border line.

in 1999, an armed confrontation between the Albanian separatists of the Kosovo Liberation army and the Serbian army and police led to the bombing of Yugoslavia (then consisting of Serbia and Montenegro) NATO forces. In March 2004, Kosovo Albanians staged riots, which led to a mass resettlement of Serbs from the province and the destruction of numerous monuments of history and culture.

Kosovo-Albanian structures in Pristina, February 17, 2008 unilaterally declared independence from Serbia . Remaining in Kosovo and Metohija, about 120 thousand Serbs live in the north region and in several enclaves in the south.