Special Court Empowering, Hurdled Procedure

However, according to them, such an effort would still be faced with procedures, which could stop proceeding with this bill until Kosovo Assembly deputies.

Mazlum Baraliu, professor of Constitutional Law, speaking of Radio Free Europe, explains that in principle, the Government of Kosovo can make the draft law on the abolition of the Special Court and send it to the Assembly.

According to him, the Parliament would then have to call the Priory again to set up the session agenda and then, by majority, send this bill to the parliamentary hearing.

But according to Professor Baraliu, the first obstacle to further proceedings on such an evental bill could be encountered at the Assembly Chief.

The “specifically that a situation can happen what was Friday. Without the specific quorum in the Parliamentary Chief, no agenda could be set, any order of the work of the session, whatever it is, fair or extraordinary parliamentary, as it was attempting to be held yesterday”, he says.

Professor Baraliu adds that even if the eventual draft law for the abolition of the Special Court was to arrive in any way on a daily basis in the Parliament, it could hardly pass because of further procedures. According to him, such a bill could not be voted for a simple majority.

“Which is already about the level who

The challenger because there has been no constitutional basis for the Law to be made for the Special Court, and it has had to be changed the Constitution and then pass the law now is the same procedure, with approval and abolition of laws. It would also take this case to first change the Constitution, then vote the law, eventually with a simple majority, but, as the situation is. This law, it must have two-thirds of the Assembly, otherwise it can't be processed further even if it eventually went from Headship to the relevant plenary session of the Parliament”, Baraliu explains.

Otherwise, Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, through the social Twitter network, has written that Kosovo's leaders remain committed to democracy and rule of law.

“Mes speculation, it is important that all continue to be sure of Kosovo's future and its democratic processes. Kosovo's society and leadership remain fully committed to democracy, rule of law, reconciliation, dialogue and relations on equal grounds and rights”, Thaci wrote on Twitter.

Efforts that were made on Friday in the Kosovo Assembly by the three ruling parties -- the Democratic Party of Kosovo, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo and the Kosovo Initiative regarding the proposal to abolish the Special Court -- have sparked the harsh response of ambassadors of Western countries in Kosovo, but also civil society.

The immediate has been the response of the ambassador of the United States of America to Kosovo, again has reacted to the initiative to abolish the Special Court.

A decision to revote the Special Court would mark a turning point away from rule of law, Europe and the United States. Kosovo, don't choose that future for your children!”, Delawi wrote on Twitter.

Imer Mushkolaj, connoisseur of political developments in the country, tells Radio Free Europe that it takes into account the mood with which leaders of Kosovo's high institutions have approached the Special Court in recent months, is not surprising their action on Friday.

I believe that all of this has nothing to do with, but only personal interests, first of all, the president of the country, who wants in this form to prove to pressure, to escape any possible indictment that might be directed against him”, Muskolaj estimates.

According to him, a eventual decision by the Kosovo Assembly to abolish the Special Court would bear serious consequences for the country.

I believe the consequences will be too big and I wouldn't be surprised to absolutely give up on us and then the situation, in fact, turn around. Because I fully agree with the U.S. ambassador's statement (Delai) that this is a knife in the back, not only for international friends, but, first of all, is the stab behind the back of Kosovo's own state”, said Mushkolaj.

The Kosovo Assembly on August 3, 2015, had adopted with accelerated procedure the Law for the Special Court. The approval was made by majority of votes, but without the participation of opposition parties, which at the time boycotted the Parliament's work.