Vetevendosje: CEC cannot be what Thaci wants, but how the people voted

Through a statement of media, Vetevendosje has said that the CEC should consist according to the election outcome, so two members from the coalition PAN, two Vetevendosje members and two members of the LAA coalition, as the Constitution and Law for Elections requires, broadcast Koha.net.

This is the text of the statement:

“is becoming a year and a half from the Certificate of parliamentary elections, and the Central Election Commission still does not reflect constitutional political representation.

CEC must consist according to election outcome, so two members from coalition PAN, two Vetevendosje members and two members of the LAA coalition, as the Constitution and the Law require for elections. The CEC cannot have composition as President Thaci wants, but as the people have voted.

Thaci and his young associates want the PAN to have four members of Vetevendosje and the Democratic League of Kosovo by one member.

Hashim Thaci, constitutional violation over one year-olds is covering it with future violations. The president's role is limited to confirming the constitutional nominations of political subjects who have participated in the recent elections, and by no means to make partisan appointment of CEC members on political markets and personal interests.

This president, who rather than the unity of the people, represents his divisions, instead of the protection of the Republic, symbolizes its degeneration, instead of guaranteeing independent institutions, including as no other capture and usurping them, is now aiming to deny the opposition what they have given citizens and guarantee the Constitution and the Law for the elections.

The recent invitation by the president's office for the nomination of only one member for Vetevendosje and LDK, while political subjects who were part of PAN in the recent elections to nominated four members is contrary to the Constitution of the Republic, the Law for Elections and the Act of Constitutional Court 2015. The Constitutional Court has defined what the Constitution as a parliamentary group envisions, it clearly states: “under the Constitution, the largest parliamentary group should be considered party, coalition, civic initiatives and independent candidates who have more seats in the Assembly, in the sense of Article 64 (1) of the Constitution, than any other party, coalition, civic initiative and independent candidates who have participated in the election... This is what the Constitution envisions as a parliamentary group and, the more so, that this is defacto in accordance with parliamentary practice in democratic states”.

While the Law for General Elections stipulates that “The mandate of members of the CEC begins no later than sixty (60) days after the certificate of election results for the country”. This paragraph, beyond the deadline for when the mandate of CEC members should begin later, also clarifys the legal criterion for legitimate subjects to make nominations for CEC members, as guarantees the necessary mechanism for institutional continuation of a permanent constitutional institution. The CEC would have to have its new constitutional composition in the past year, meanwhile, the president continues to host the appearance of the new <x2 Groups. But, with the logic of ignoring the election outcome, in the Kosovo Assembly, parliamentary groups could be created indefinitely just to win or add their number to the Central Election Commission.

Furthermore, the CEC's constitutional and legal composition also depends on the integrity of the upcoming election organisation, as a unconstitutional and anti-legal CEC would produce unconstitutional and illegal decisions and actions. Suspension of constitutionality in the country is the last phase ahead of authoritarian power arbitrate.

The effort to use constitutional institutions, such as the CEC, to pay the services and submission of the PSD, AAK and NISMA to Thaci, are unacceptable and warning the deepening and expansion of the capture and capture of the state”.