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Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Kosovo's budget has enough money to organise early parliamentary elections, but to carry these means to the Central Election Commission (KQZ), government officials in the resignations say legal ways must be clarified. Kosovo Constitutional Courts, which on 29 July has received a request from outgoing prime minister [...]
Kosovo's budget has enough money to organise early parliamentary elections, but to carry these means to the Central Election Commission (KQZ), government officials in the resignations say legal ways must be clarified.
Kosovo's Constitutional Court, which on July 29th has received a request from outgoing Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj for interpreting and defining the government's competencies and functions following the prime minister's resignation, has yet to give any interpretations on this requirement.
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Lulzim Rafuna, adviser to the outgoing minister of finance in Kosovo government, in a conversation for Radio Free Europe, says they still do not have an official request from the CEC for accessing the money required for the election body.
But, according to him, Kosovo's budget has sufficient means for this election process.
“Although it hasn't been a constitutional election year, we have in time left a reserve within the Ministry of Finance, which can also be used and is a lot more than enough to cover the expenses required by the Central Election Commission. Our budget officials have met with CEC officials and made harmonisation of the budget, where the amount is brought up to 5.9m euros of the total planned. This is the amount we have today (not the final), since we have not yet received a request from the CEC”, Rafuna says.
Early elections for Republic Assembly Kosovo will be held on 6 October, 2019.
The Central Election Commission has held on Tuesday the meeting, where it has called for the means for the election process to be adopted.
Enis Halimi, chief head of the CEC Secretariat, said no procedure involving supplies could be initiated, with the aim of organising the election process, while no budget has been approved.
No procedure without accessing the budget and becoming accessible cannot be initiated by us. Technically, it is impossible to do and beg that steps be taken so that this budget can be anchored and accessible as soon as it is”, he said.
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CEC Chairman Valdete Daka stressed that they will submit budgetary requirements to the Government of Kosovo and expect this required budget to be accommodated into the CEC accounts.
We're an institution that organises elections and we only do that when there's money. If we don't have money, we develop procedures to where we are legally enabled and after that we can't continue”, Daka said.
Lulzim Rafuna, adviser to the outgoing minister of finance in the Government of Kosovo, says that for making a decision to accommodate means for the election process, they expect to have an opinion by the Constitutional Court.
“We are very positive that we will have an opinion, as we have not yet accepted official application from the CEC, and we hope to have an opinion at least until the day we receive the CEC request. But we're still stressing that we should sit down and see what legal ways of carrying the amount of tools the CEC needs, Rafuna says.
On 29 July, Prime Minister to Resign Ramush Haradinaj has submitted to the Constitutional Court the request for definition of competencies. From that day, Kosovo's Constitutional Court has a 60-day legal deadline to provide an answer.
