Decertification of all candidates who have problems with the law is required

KDI requires the Central Election Commission to respect the law and make a decision on the deceertification of all candidates who do not meet criteria for certificate.

“Nine years from the adoption of the General Election Law, the CEC has never made verifications for candidates if they meet all the criteria necessary to participate in the elections. Now the first efforts are under way for political subjects' lists to be cleaner. By what? The CEC has asked the Constitutional Court of Kosovo to verify 7068 candidates who have been certified to participate in local elections if they have been convicted of criminal acts in the past three years. Of them, courts have found 86 people found themselves guilty in the last three years”, the KDI communiqué says.

As reported in the communiqué of this non-government organisation, some members of the CEC have been reluctant to make decisions on decertification of these candidates, calling to the nature of these acts and demanding that the same ones be divided into categories.

The “regardless of whether there may be remarks in the law, and as such, there needs to be changes through electoral reform that has been dragged on by political parties for years, the CEC has the obligation to implement the law as it is and not to contest court decisions. The CEC is not a legislative institution that through its decisions meets the legal provisions, nor is the judicial institution to re-version decisions on the criminal acts of candidates”, the communiqué says.