6 hours agoP DS, AAK, NISMA: President violated the Constitution
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The leaders of the three parliamentary groups, P The DS, AAK and NISMA, with the support of 30 Parliament deputies, have surrendered to the Constitutional Court, the requirement for assessing the constitutionality of President Hashim Thaci's decree regarding the appointment of members of the Central Election Commission. Following the surrender of this request, the heads of the three parliamentary groups have issued pronociations [...]
After handing in that requirement, the leaders of the three parliamentary groups have issued proposals for the media, with what they have said President Thaci has not acted as the Constitution envisions.
Bilall Sheriff from the Social Democrat Initiative has said President Hashim Thaci's decree is not in line with the Kosovo Constitution.
We are here to confirm that we just sent a complaint to the Constitutional Court to challenge President Hashim Thaci's decision, respectively, his decree concerning the appointment of CEC members. We consider our rights as parliamentary groups have been violated, and for that reason we have challenged this decree. We expect the Constitutional Court to give us justice in what we have established today. We think the president's decree is not in accordance with the constitution. Until the court makes the decision, we will not make further comments because we want the Court not to feel pressured during the decision-making process of”.
Ahmet Isufi from the AAK considers the violation was done, in fact President Hashim Thaci has not implemented his request to decree all members of the parliamentary groups.
“Paralyse the president's office has asked all parliamentary groups to submit the names of CEC members and we have sent them all and we consider the violation due to the president's request to decree all members of parliamentary groups”.
While Dardan Sejdiu from the Social Democratic Party has said this decree is against the values of pluralism and democracy.
A detail that is of utmost importance is plurality in this Republic. So in the spirit of what we want to build a pluralistic democracy where all parliamentary groups are represented as represented by the Constitution. In this complaint we've filed with the Constitutional Court, I believe one of our common battles is to make the battle for pluralism. Pluralism does not mean the concentration of representation in the CEC in just three groups, but in all those having parliamentary groups, as the country's constitution envisions.
