Opposition blames Government for failing to implement resolutions

This is happening according to the Civil Society because the executive is not taking these documents seriously that are emerging from the Kosovo Assembly as the country's highest legislative body.

Because of not the life of numerous resolutions, the opposition is accusing Government, while the position says implementing some of these documents has only begun in practice.

Democratic League of Kosovo MP Vjosa Osmani has estimated that the current government is ignoring documents approved in the Kosovo Assembly.

According to her, this government cabinet is the worst example that is destroying the supervisory function that Parliament has toward the Government.

The “is being set an extremely bad example where the Government is almost entirely ignoring resolutions, except one that has initiated it itself, others are ignoring. We've seen numerous examples including the resolution on Telekom, the environmental protection resolution or air pollution resolution, and it's just going to say an example of how it shouldn't be killed parliamentarians, because by ignoring the documents this Assembly produces it is only being undermined, and it's only being destroyed the Watch Tower function on Government. In parliamentary systems such as this one of ours should not have happened, but are giving them exceptionally difficult examples, as you know every year in the Kosovo report, the European Union criticises this approach”, Osmani says.

That resolutions that are being voted in the Assembly are being neglected by the relevant ministries, and also by the Government itself, says Vetevendosje Movement MP Ismail Kurteshi.

Kurteshi has considered that the Government of Kosovo is obliged to respect the decisions of the Parliament, for which it called for greater insistence on the life of the voted resolutions.

Kurteshi said that although since 2017, through a resolution, education has been required to become a national priority but that no step has yet been taken.

One thing that goes away is approved by most representatives of the people Government is obliged to respect, but there is no institution of responsibility in us, so even when they do not, nothing is taken against those who ignore these wills of deputies of the Republic of Kosovo. The decision to insist on the Government living up to resolutions is in the hands of the Parliament, as it can take measures against the Government because the Parliament has chosen Government, but not being willing to seek responsibility from them, they are able to play with the decisions of the Parliament”, says Kurteshi.

But unlike opposition deputies, they're thinking the position.

Alliance for the Future of Kosovo MP Donika Kadaj-Bujupi is considering that with the Haradinaj Government, the life story of resolutions coming out of Kosovo's Assembly has begun.

As a concrete case, she cited the resolution on Telekom, which she said all points this resolution envisions have been taken into account by Haradinaj.

We have over 150 resolutions that have been drawn from the Parliament and that were never taken into account by successive governments. It is the first time that in prime minister based on a Assembly resolution coming and addressing the same, here I speak of the resolution issued days ago, or months ago on the Telekom issue, which has eight points and based on these demands on these eight points, Kosovo's prime minister has taken eight measures and has come to report to the Assembly at a long session, receiving additional parliamentary opinions to address the issue. So treatment has begun and in some form implementation of resolutions in question“, he says.

Regarding the practical failure to implement resolutions issued by Kosovo's Parliament, civil societies are considering this is happening due to the lack of a common opinion of MPs in the face of issues under which those resolutions are being built.

Artan Murati from the Kosovo Democratic Institute has said that political culture is missing in Kosovo, which would offer opportunities for the Assembly to be taken into account more by the executive.

Murati has stressed that not only in this legislature but in past legislatures the resolutions voted in the Kosovo Assembly have not been taken seriously.

According to him, until resolutions were spared, there was also a lack of unique co-ordination among MPs.

“> in Kosovo not only in this legislature and executive, but in general at the time of years, governments, government cabinets, the respective ministries are not taking resolutions seriously, but this also exacerbates the thought diversity among MPs and not having a unique stand on the part of parliament on specific issues because the resolutions are at first having trouble getting adopted”, says Murati.

Some of these resolutions that were voted and never implemented are resolutions for the removal of the romingus between Kosovo and Albania, reducing daily border crossing procedures for fellow countrymen, resolutions for the state of Telekom, the resolution on granting additions to children, the resolution on air pollution, which envisions the education sector becoming national priority and many others.

We remember that Kosovo's Parliament's failure to function properly during this legislature has led to the lack of resolution quorum even without voting.