Gashi seeks referendum for demarcation

Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Dardan Gashi, once Diaspora minister, has praised that the demarcation agreement has already become an apple of contention between Kosovo and the international side.

For this reason, through an authorial writing published in “Zeri”, Gashi has sought to announce a referendum on the demarcation issue.

“Disability to pave the way for the border with Montenegro brought sad scenes to the Parliament and on the streets of the capital, arrests and parliamentary sentences, the collapse of a government along with the people's representatives, and the election of a new Government Assembly. But still, the demarcation is standing firm as a source of contention between us here in Kosovo and between us and our friends in the EU and the US. Who should answer that question when the people's representatives are inconsistent or in wanton? The people themselves -- the Sovereign -- with referendum” -- have expressed Deputy Prime Minister Gashi in his writing.

Gashi has said that the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo under the Constitution of the Republic has the right to call a referendum.

“Nani 65 of the Constitution which speaks of the competencies of the Parliament at point 3 says: (Thunder) “step referendum, in accordance with law”. In addition, the Constitution, speaking of the competencies of the Central Election Commission, among other things, gives it authority for organising the referendum (enni 139; Article 1 “The Central Election Commission is a permanent body that prepares, oversees, manages and verifys all actions involving the election process and referenda, and declares their results”, said among other things in its writing.

Below you find his full writing:

Reference to demarcation, Constitution allows for 2008!

It is said that when Toma Aquinas (1225-1274), a monk, the medieval theologian and Reformer of the Catholic Church, had begun his monk career, he had been able to attend a dinner among older monks, all of whom were shaved theologians. The conversation he was listening to was a hot disk about how many teeth a horse has. The older monks were quoting and consulting religious books, sacred books, and were pressing and arguing passionately. The new Toma, still associated with the real world of theology, had once interrupted them by suggesting that there were horses tied outside and that it might be easier to count their teeth than to debate and grieve indefinitely. Of course the new Toma was first punished for this heretic intervention...

Politics often has the right to debate in the name of the people, the people, but without the people! The people also choose their own representatives, and in the ideal case, they express their demands and desires. But what if representatives repeatedly fail to answer key questions and concerns of their citizens?

The demarcation, for example, has become a key cause for which politics are not finding a way! Objectors and supporters of the current version insist they defend the country and sovereign intres by thus behaving in about three years. The inability to give way to the border with Montenegro brought sad scenes to the Parliament and on the streets of the capital, arrests and deputies' sentences, the collapse of a government along with the people's representatives, and the election of a new Government Assembly. But yet the demarcation is standing firmly as a source of contention between us here in Kosovo and between us and our friends in the EU and the US. Who should answer that question when the occupants of the people are inconsistent or willless? Their people... the Sovereign... by referendum!

Surprisingly, there is a belief in us that Kosovo has no right to organise the basic instrument of democracy, R EFERENDUMIN! But fortunately it's not true. Republic of Kosovo He has the right to ask the Sovereign.

It is true that this right is slightly curtailed, but basically the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo under the Constitution of the Republic has the right to call a referendum. Article 65 of the Constitution that speaks of the competencies of the Parliament at point 3 says: (Thunder) “patal referendum, in accordance with law”. The Constitution also speaks of the competencies of the Central Election Commission, among other things, gives it authority for organising the referendum (noting 139; period 1 “The Central Election Commission is a permanent body that prepares, oversees, manages and verifys all actions involving the election process and referenda, and declares their results. ”

The issues which the Parliament cannot call a referendum are clearly specified in Article 81 of the Constitution, but none of these definitions is related to the subject of demarcation but to minority rights!

Basically, the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo since 2008 envisions the referendum as insisting on resolving the country's problems. Fearing that some of Pandora's “is opening “, let alone that this instrument has never been used but it appears to be buried deep somewhere in the politics brain.

Of course, because of this <x0harrese” there is also missing the relevant law, but the legal framework can be drafted within less than a week if there is political will and consensus: referendum practices exist throughout the democratic and specifically world in EU states. The voting procedures for the referendum are identical to those of the central and local elections, the election lists are the same, the polls are the same, the CEC professional staff is the same. Little will may be devised or adopted, even the little missing to give the sovereign his voice to decide where their chosen ones fail to decide.

The Sovereign then, through the referendum he could decide between at least two options:

To authorize Kosovo's decision to ratify the current demarcation agreement with Montenegro, while simultaneously forcing the country's government to immediately start procedures for the revision of the border line by correcting it, where evidence is found that the border line is located at the expense of the Republic of Kosovo, according to point 2 of the annex;
Turn down the current version and everything goes back to zero!

If the sovereign had authorised the Assembly for ratification, Kosovo would have opened the way for visa liberalisation and accelerated EU integration! Kosovo's political class would remove a huge burden, which, as it is clearly seen, does not have and will not have conspiracy in the near future. Even if the sovereign refuses the current version, then it is within the will of the citizens to accept the challenge of convincing the world, that Kosovo is becoming an unfair one, and that its people are willing to sacrifice liberalisation for the sake of clarifying the border line to its neighbours.

The referendum route may seem long, but of course it's not longer than what we've been through. Given that the basic framework for organising the referendum exists, within this spring it could clear everything about this subject that has unjustly become a noose on the necks of the citizens of this country. At least the referendum would once and for all clarify the mood of citizens and would be put into practice so that in the future such topics will not remain the privilege of some elected and the arena for political accounting. Political explorers, supporters and opponents of the current version will also have the opportunity to convince citizens of their views and to campaign for their own pro-contras. Political parties will at the end see whether it is what they have truly represented by that moment or theology of its kind.

... when politics is set up in the deepenings of endless dyspas, resentments, revans and tact on key topics, it's good that sovereign tell politics how much horse's tooth is!

Dardan Gashi Deputy Prime Minister of Government of the Republic of Kosovo