Kryeziu: We've visited all political subjects, that's what's impossible for us at the PDK.

Representatives of civil society that today have held the “Refusion March” to oppose the draft law to finance political parties, have been halted from security at the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, who have walked away violently.

Civil society has not been allowed to post inscriptions with amendments to reject this bill, which are placed at the AAK party, Initiative, Vetevendosje, PSD and LDK.

Civil society representative Ismet Kryeziu has said he had permission to place inscriptions on each party. While calling on PDK chairman Kadri Wessel to take steps against the violence that has been exercised against civil society representatives.

He has also asked Wessel to withdraw the draft law on financing political subjects.

We have visited all political subjects today, and we were unable to reach the PDK. We call Mr. Wessel provides law to ensure our safety to protest freely. We are citizens of this country, we have the right to protest, we have asked permission, we have got permission to protest. We call Mr. Wessel and his political subject to demonstrate democracy, we call on him to ensure security, we appeal to him to withdraw the law, we urge him not to touch our emerging citizens, because he must not be a party to violence, he must build standards for good governance. He is the speaker of Parliament, must be an example of his subject for good government. We call once again, not to provoke his bodyguards to withdraw the law, which does not guarantee transparency, which does not guarantee and gives names to their donors «, we demand that they not condition donations with the tender. We ask him once more that Mr. Wessel takes measures in his party for violence, which he has been practicing today on civil society activists”, he said.

Civil society organisations have maintained “The Mark of Refinition” to reject the Policy Subject Financing Bill, which they claim is not a constitutional spirit and violates international standards for financing political parties, particularly recommendations of the Venice Commission.

According to them, the law after first reading has undergone changes and there are 27 amendments that damage the substance of the law. They say that this bill allows political parties to bargain with public money, enables political parties to become corporations by hiding the donors' names.

Refuse march started from square “Skenderbeu”, from which they have continued in the headquarters of the six largest parliamentary parties.

Headship in the name of organisations has shown the reasons why they oppose the adoption of this bill.

We are here today to call on political subjects, to call on the Government of Kosovo to withdraw the law, because the standards we have to set not only political parties, but also as citizens, we have to oppose misuse and shopping with public money on the part of political subjects. By this bill, political parties treat us as clients and not voters. By this bill political parties hide in our names and see us as euros, with this bill political parties raised our fees and reduced their fines. With this bill, political parties in 27 amendments damage the spirit of the law, they also damage achieved or demands by the EAR. We are here today to make a march, which will start from here to visit all political subjects and distribute 27 amendments or messages that undermine the draft law to fund political parties ike”, Kryeziu said.

He said that “The Mark of Refugees” has been called on Kosovo Parliament deputies to reject this law, as well as to urge the government to withdraw the law.

Kryeziu has shown some of the points that are problematic, while he argued that if the bill is passed on second reading it would try to prevent it through the president, while he said that even through the ombudsman it would be sent to the Constitutional Court.

<x0) Integrity, which affects the office for reporting and monitoring the finances of political parties, from those that raised tariffs and cash to financing political subjects from 50 euros to 500 euros. From what political subjects lower themselves fines for irregularities they can make, from the deals that parliamentary groups make and violate the constitutional spirit, because the law dictates yesterday life and action and financing of political parties rather than parliamentary groups... If the Kosovo government does not withdraw, if MPs do not refuse it, we will take all legal measures. We will try through the president to restore this law to the Assembly, however, not rule out that through the ombudsman we ask the Constitutional Court to bring down this bill”, he said.

Representatives of 100 non-governmental organisations have first stopped at the headquarters of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, where they have asked the party's chairman, simultaneously the country's Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to withdraw this bill. Also, amendments have been put in place at the introduction of this party that according to civil society are contrary to the law.

Later, they have stopped at the Social Democrat Initiative, where they have called from the chairman of this party, Fatmir Limaj, and deputies of the Initiative not to vote for the bill. The same requests have been submitted to the Social Democrat Party headquarters.

Supporting the law not passed, civil society representatives have taken to the Vetevendosje Movement. At the entrance of this seat there was a banner saying “we agree, the law does not pass! ”

LVV MP Sami Kurteshi said that as a parliamentary group during the discussion, they have rejected the changes that have been made and will continue to reject them. He has warned that if the bill is passed, he will be sent to the Constitutional Court.

The first reading “has passed by with minimal votes, but they have passed it because there have been other laws. We haven't really agreed with these changes, there are other changes that have been made that have no constitutional basis. However, this financial game of political parties is a next attempt to legitimise the theft of political parties of financial means in various forms. I think that's only a small part of what should be done under the financing of political parties, because during the campaigns actually a lot of the means that are supposed to be given in nature or in other forms that are not in nature and they have to be counted... in case this law eventually, I think it will not pass, but eventually we will send it to Constitutional Court”, he said.

After Vetevendosje, civil society organisations have stopped at the headquarters of the Democratic League of Kosovo, where they have demanded that the bill not be passed.