Civil society suspends work on Commission to improve election process

Civil society organisations have suspended their work at the A-hoc Parliamentary Commission, which serves to improve the election process.
They will suspend the job until the withdrawal of the Political Subjection Bill.

“We assess that the current bill is contrary to the constitutional spirit and electoral reform initiated by the Assembly of Kosovo. The bill degrades the main principles of political life by jeopardising the integrity of the entire election reform process, including violating the Office's independence for registering Political Subjects. The current bill fails to address the agenda's priorities for European Reform (ERA) for transparency, accountability, implementation and effective sanctions in financing political parties, enabling political subjects to hide the identity of their financial contributors, raising multiple levels of these contributions, extending the deadlines for publishing campaign financial reports and reducing the fines, in cases when parties violate the constitution, it says in their statement.

Because the Policy Subjection Bill cannot be viewed as part of the Electoral Reform, and the same risks this process, we demand that the bill be withdrawn or not be voted into by Kosovo Assembly deputies”.

The Ad-hoc Commission for the improvement and strengthening of the election process was formed in April this year and is aimed at addressing the recommendations of EU election observers.
Civil society organisations and international partners serving to help local institutions build capacity for management and monitoring of the election process are also participating in this commission.

The event is supported by 100 civil society organisations.