Analysts say danger exists from institutional collapse

Awareers of political issues in the country estimate that the election process in Kosovo has not defined exactly how long political parties should have deadlines for complaints. Meanwhile, this issue is turning to bad precedent, analysts estimate.

The recogniser of political issues in the country, Armend Muja, has said Kosovo has testified that it needs electoral reform.

Kosovo is definitely proven to need to reform the election law and make amendments to procedures and processes that have slowed the scale of results”.

The first “the first one that I think and important is to re-arrange the Diaspora vote and the conditional vote, and it is important that the diaspora will be able to vote at the embassies of the Republic of Kosovo, and the vote will be that day, so on election day and have the mandate to submit results to the CEC. Meanwhile, conditional votes and those committed to the election process should be given early voting opportunities, as happening in other countries”, Muja has said.

“Even the counting process should have two types of counting, counting party votes and candidates' votes. We need to reconsider the complaint procedure. The complaint is important, but there must be only two appeals windows, because in Kosovo every complaint is taking nearly four days, which is, but there must be two terms of complaint, totaling eight days, and on the basis of that the delay is reduced, and the certificate declaration occurs within 10 days, as in many countries of the world”, he has said.

That Kosovo should have electoral reform and says Artan Demhaya from the organisation “Arise”.

According to him, reform should start from financing political parties until the deadline for complaints after the elections.

“needs an electoral reform that involves many aspects, from party financing to the set timetable, beyond which no complaints can be made and results should be certified so that we don't have an extension of the process as much as we have today. We never had such a long process”.

It's been postponed up to three weeks until we see today that six weeks have passed and we don't have a certificate of results and on the basis of complaints made at PZAP in order to count the 1472 boxes can delay the certificate deadline by the end of November or early December. A two-month deadline of counting and recounting should be extended in electoral reform to set a deadline of election day that the CEC will not even have the opportunity to exceed that election deadline”, Demhayan has said.

While such delays are also affecting economically. The head of the Kosovo Economic House (OEK), Berat Rukiqi, has said Kosovo risks entering the collapse, where it is known there is still no budget for next year. “not only now but also in the past when there has been a flurry or a delay in establishing institutions that come out of the elections, we have seen negative impact on businesses, a decrease of their confidence even at the same time an impact on performance and on their competitive bias, and I believe that even though we don't have measured it, we have this quarter we expect now, we are seeing that it has negative<2> impacts.

“I believe it would create potential even for specific collapses because we still don't have a budget for next year, we still have many pending projects and at the same time that would completely affect the loss of local investors, but even foreign investors”, Rukiqi told EO.

He has said that very soon government must be established and to express clear priorities especially in the economic sense.