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Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)After four months of boycott, MPs from the Serbian List have been seen at the Kosovo Assembly session today. They did not go for the session, either to vote, but not to allow the burning of their mandates, that is, according to the Kosovo Parliament Rule, MPs are given a mandate unless they appear in sessions for six months. For [...]
After more than four months of deliberate boycott, Serbian List deputies today have gone to the Assembly.
There, MPs gathered at an extraordinary session, which resulted in a resolution banning lucky games in Kosovo.
But neither in question nor in the vote, Serbian List deputies did.
In fact, the reason for going to the Assembly was different.
They went to the hearing to introduce the folders and prevent receiving parliamentary mandates for procedural reasons.
Thus, they fulfilled their formal covenant so that they would not be absent from the hearing for more than six months.
On this issue, political and parliamentary affairs connoisseur Ramush Tahiri has spoken of Periscope.
He has told Periscope that the current settlement allows MPs not to appear for months at hearings, then come when the warrant is seized.
The regulator says MPs can be given mandates regardless of which parties are or whose ethnicity, unless they participate six months. But if they take part once in six months, so I'm afraid it's also in other countries in the region, then they continue the mandate. It's a rule. They deliberately boycott him, but the Parliament's regulation allows them why it seems immoral and unfair. Other parliamentary groups share the same. They can change the regulation to do every three months, but after six months the mandate is not taken. They may penalise, remove their wages or wages, but once they receive the mandate and give it to someone else, it is not allowed. Even MPs can't undertake anything, since it's a people's mandate”, Tahiri told Periscope.
He has said that since the Serb List boycott is political, then the ruling coalition partners should discuss it.
It's not just the Serbian List, but the other parties. Boycott is political, he needs to be discussed with coalition partners. The mandate is individual, and whoever the MP wants to be missing for months this entire”, Tahiri said further.
As observers of the Parliament's work, he says they are not satisfied with the work of MPs.
“We are not satisfied with the work of the Parliament, because Kosovo needs the Parliament to work, and democratic processes to go on. We're always having trouble with certain parties that boycott it, individuals that boycott it and go through education and training, but they're blocking the job with other obstacles that don't affect my country's work. This is our level, we have what to do with ba”, Tahiri said further.
Meanwhile, Serb List deputies, in addition to deliberately boycotting the work of the Parliament, in a response after the session said they would not allow their own occupied private Serb seats by Hashim Thaci and Ramush Haradinaj.
The “reports that we are not interested in parliamentary mandates, but that, as the bearer of democratic will expressed by the Serbian people in Kosovo, we are obliged to prevent Hashim Thaci's private parliamentary seats from coming to Ramush Haradinaj's”, the party's statement said.
Kosovo's constitution and the Parliament's labour regulation lose the MP's mandate on several occasions, but not even the ban on pay in case of the boycott.
Article 70, point 5 says that if the MP is missing six months straight at the Assembly hearings, he loses his mandate, until, only in separate cases, the Kosovo Assembly could decide differently.
The Parliament's Work Center also envisions the same. Article 25, paragraph (E) of this Parliament's Labour Rule, says the MP loses his mandate if he does not attend any Assembly meeting in the six-month period.
The Framework Deputt loses the mandate if he does not attend any Assembly meeting in the six-month period. If the MP does not testify to the convincing facts on the case to the Speaker of the Assembly, the president requests the recommendation of the Commission for Mandata, Immunity and Order. After the Commission's recommendation, the chairman proposes to the Parliament the dismissal of the MP's post. The Assembly decides on the matter at the next meeting”, says Article 25 of the Parliament's regulation./ P ERISCOPIA
