Kosovo participated for the first time in Venice Commission

The Kosovo government, in the afternoon, has issued false news about the participation of a group of officials from Kosovo at the Venice Conference.

The official announcement says that since Kosovo's declaration of independence and membership in the Venice Commission since 2014, for the first time an official Kosovo delegation is participating in the 115th plenary session of the Venice Commission.

All this <x0... successful” is attributed to Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, who reportedly has sent letter to the Venice Commission.

But truth is different!

Kosovo has been represented for years in the Venice Commission by former Constitutional Court Chairman Enver Hasani, so no statements of participation for the first time remain.

Hasan has participated in this commission's sessions even after completing his mandate at the Constitutional Court.

His recent participation in the works of the Venice Commission is claimed to have been in June last year when 111 session of this commission has been discussed for the Law on the Constitutional Court of Poland; Law on Armenia's Constitutional Court; The Law on Ombudsperson of Armenia; for Bosnia and Herzegovina's Amicus Curiae for the manner of choosing Bosnia and Herzegovina's House of Peoples; as well as for the Commission's Opinion on Amendments to Turkey's Constitution to put referendum on changing the governing system in this country.

Hasan's presence of the Commission, as writes Activress, had hampered Deputy Prime Minister Behgjet Pacolli, who had officially asked Prime Minister Haradinaj to replace him with someone else.

As a pretext, Pacolli had received an act pronounced by the Pristina Constitutional Court, where Hasani had been sentenced to a year in prison on bail for the criminal act on duty.

After consulting even with a group of local and international law professors, Minister Pacolli considers that remaining in this role a high-profile individual's role with this record of contempt affecting the condemnation seriously affects Kosovo's image, as the prestigious international institution where it represents us has been informed of the sentence, Mr. Enver Hasani, from local justice. Under these conditions, he himself should resign”, Pacolli said months ago.

This time, the delegation of the Republic of Kosovo, which will participate in the works of the Venice Commission, consists of Mentor Borovci, director of the Legal Office at the Office of Prime Minister, Jahja Luka, adviser to Kosovo Prime Minister and Arben Krasniqi, director of the Government Co-ordination Secretariat.

This session will discuss meeting the Law on Financing Political Entities and the General Election Law.