About 6m euros will cost elections, constitutional unlock the Ministry of Finance.

Although, days ago, the Assembly was disbanded, the Kosovo government, respectively, has still not shared the budgetary means for the CEC until it has an advisory opinion from the Constitutional Court.

Finance Minister Lulzim Rafuna's adviser to Kosova Prees, says that budget department officials at the Ministry of Finance and CEC officials have had joint meetings that have harmonised draft budgets and the amount of money money means for organising elections is 5 million and 894 thousand and 730 euros, but that cannot accommodate these means until providing a constitutional Court opinion due to circumstances created with the government's fall after the prime minister's resignation.

In the last meeting that has been held by the outgoing Government, the prime minister in his resignation has been addressed to the Constitutional Court at the request for legal opinion on actions the government could take under these circumstances as prime minister in the resignation.

For this, the adviser Rafuna says the tools are secured, but the constitutional has not yet provided answers.

<x0mMWs like many are not a problem, the tools are and are found in the Finance Ministry under the contingent programme, whereas Article 15, paragraph 2, the finance minister is legally authorised, and the Law on the 2019 budget authorises the minister who on the basis of the CEC's request transferred from this under the means to the CEC budget, but all actions are suspended until the coming of the constitutional court”, Rafu claims.

Even CEC chairman Valdete Daka says she has not yet officially requested tools from the Ministry of Finance for holding elections, because she has no official date for holding them.

Daka has not indicated the possible amount of means for the election body.

No, we haven't sent a warrant yet, because we can't send a request without knowing the exact date of elections. As soon as we have the president's decree on the date, we will address the government, competent institutions for the exact amount. We are preparing higher budgetary demand, and with the outcome of the elections it is known exactly how much the organisation of the elections has cost, but we always require a rough amount for election organisation”, says Daka.

Constitutional law professor Mazbul Baraliu says without a Constitutional Court opinion and without separate means of nearly fivem euros as much as the CEC requires there can be no elections.

According to Baraliu, even for this reason and other reasons, for all the ministries and its resigned prime minister would have to have the Constitutional Court as soon as I could give an answer to the question the former prime minister of the Republic of Kosovo has asked.

To clarify the vagueities that exist at the former government cabinet level, it would need the Constitutional Court now not to put off a job that is done very quickly. It's not that this case is so complicated and it takes years or months to deal with it. A rapporteur can for several days either do the job or clarify that the former prime minister's request is acceptable or not to the Constitutional Court”, Baraliu says.

The prime minister's resignation, Ramush Haradinaj, at the government's latest meeting has addressed the constitutional court's request to get an opinion concerning any action this government can take under these circumstances.

Because it's a legal basis situation, I don't see the legal basis solved from the meeting with a political meeting, I know I need to get an opinion from the Constitutional Court because we have functional responsibilities. For example, the minister of Health may have been applying for emergency drug purchase that he cannot make his own decision and that no government could forward the proposal to”, Haradinaj said.

Otherwise, Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has resigned on 19 July, while the Parliament has been disbanded on August 22nd, while soon it is expected President Hashim Thaci will set the date of elections that could be October 6th.