Investigation commissions that do not investigate anything

All these commissions have remained as initiatives or even in cases where the establishment has been approved, such as the Commission for Investigations about the expulsion of Turkish citizens, has not yet been achieved.

MPs from the ruling political parties accuse opposition of launching ideas for investigative commissions, only of daily policy needs. On the other hand, opposition parties say the commissions are being hampered, whether to be formed or functional deliberately by the coalition parties.

Sala Berisha '%s' Shala, deputy from the Democratic Party of Kosovo, told Radio Free Europe that it is insincere on the part of MPs to spend energy on ideas and proposals for investigative commissions until they themselves do their jobs, ahead of themselves with labour regulations.

After that is the effect of political propaganda, marketing, political consumption of parliamentary groups. Not at all. MPs must understand that their task, the trust they have received from citizens, is really to be worked out. Poetry propaganda campaigns have an appointed time. Neither should the law, which is meant for investigative commissions, be misused, nor the work in the country to become propaganda”, Berisha said.

MP Berisha '%s' Shala said, as well, that there are many commissions in the Kosovo Assembly, which if they worked properly, would not need even these proposals and ideas that never come true until the end.

While MP Armend Zemaj from the Democratic League of Kosovo told Radio Free Europe, the majority of investigative commissions proposed by MPs are being hampered by the ruling political parties.

According to him, initiatives and ideas for forming different investigative commissions have sometimes had no impact on resolving specific issues. According to Zemaj, launching ideas for the commission should have a solid basis and rationale.

“I am speaking with competence for the two commissions that are initiated by the LDK, it is seen that there is an attempt to bypass, escape from responsibility, and that is directly linked to the people currently in the ruling coalition. This shows that something is behind these two suspicions that we have as two separate cases, the first with abuses of human competencies and violations of human rights and, above all, national security and that with misuse of public money”, Zemaj said.

Meanwhile, Vetevendosje Movement Parliamentary Group chief Glauk Konjufca told Radio Free Europe that recently for lack of quorum there has been a deadlock in forming investigative commissions.

The only possibility of power preventing the creation of parliamentary investigative commissions is if they boycott the quorum. Otherwise, the establishment cannot be stopped because the establishment of the commission becomes a fact of 40 signatures, while the opposition has more than 40 signatures. Thus, it can establish any commission it wants”, Konjufca stressed.

Artan Murati, analyst from the Kosovo Democratic Institute, speaking of Radio Free Europe, estimated that all the debates and statements that were made in the Assembly for investigative commissions were made for political benefit and that, according to him, nothing concrete is in practice.

“What is being observed by this debate on parliamentary investigative commissions is that, first of all, there is no co-ordination of even co-ordination among parliamentary groups to execute an idea for investigating a particular issue and there is no concrete plan for what to be investigated or how to investigate”.

I also doubt in the goal of political subjects that they really want to make that investigation. More like a mechanism or some kind of threat to sound good to citizens, because it's seen that the Assembly is not working well and there are no good results”, Murati estimated.

Under the law, the commissions are founded to investigate problems, issues where they are directly involved in government or state responsibilities. They are also founded with the aim of consisting, the description of the course of events, or the goal of clarifying what happened and determining the responsibility of those involved.

The law also envisions that the commission is deliberately founded on information, recommendation, exercise of parliamentary supervision and reaching a conclusion, and that they function on the basis of constitutional principles and rules laid down by this law.