Edi Rama Is Not Kosovo’s Brother. He Is Its Liability.

Edi Rama congratulates Kosovo publicly while undermining it privately, a pattern that weakens our security, distorts justice, and serves Serbian strategic interests.

On Sunday 28 December 2025, Kosovo went back to the polls to break a year of deadlock. By the time the counting ran late into the night and early Monday, the direction of travel was clear, Albin Kurti and Lëvizja Vetëvendosje had emerged with enough strength to form the next government without begging reluctant partners for permission to govern. The paralysis that had frozen legislation, delayed financing, and fed the usual Balkan rumours of collapse was, at least on paper, over¹.

I watched the reaction unfold the way it always does in this region, not first through institutions, but through posts. Edi Rama moved quickly. He did not speak in policy. He spoke in sentiment, seasonal symbols, and the oldest form of plausible deniability in Albanian politics, a blessing that sounds like solidarity while leaving him room to do the opposite tomorrow.

This is what he wrote, in Albanian, as published on X..

“I congratulated the re elected Prime Minister of Kosovo for the meaningful victory and I …