Reform required after elections, current electoral system capable of manipulation

This process was launched since 2011, when at that time two commissions were formed: The Commission to amend the election law, aimed at electoral reform and the Commission for Constitutional Changes, which had more to do with electing the president by the people.

Finally, a parliamentary Ad-hoc commission was formed to improve and strengthen the election process, but that has not even 10% of work, Vetevendosje MP Albulen Haxhiu, part of this commission, told Online Economy.

According to her, the work of this commission was wrong, so it was not possible to address the requirements.

Now it was the last attempt when an ad-hoc commission was formed that didn't do it 10 percent of the work, and in that sense it wasn't addressed because it was wrongly launched”.

Haxhiu voiced confidence that Kosovo has no problem with the electoral system, but with the election management.

Kosovo has no problems with the electoral system, such as the list, or the electoral system an area, but the problem lies with the election administration, or in the way of counting votes, the problems that we continue to have with valid documents for the vote, which are currently worth UNMIK or other documents, and for citizens who have not been citizens of the Republic of Kosovo, and that has been error”

Lack of will, according to her, has been the reason this process has been postponed until this time. All of this in order to manipulate people's will.

“Respondence can be considered because they have promised to focus on election management issues, most political parties have said they will work in this direction, even considering that we have had international observers monitoring the election processes in Kosovo. Following those monitors are reports, recommendations and we've pledged to move them forward”.

It's a failure in the sense that there was no will to address electoral reform, because you know those who have been in government so far try to use anything to manipulate the will of citizens. But I believe that this election will not succeed because we will have observers and commissionors who will protect the vote of citizens”.

I believe that Kosovo needs reform, but it has not been able to do so far, but the future Government and the next Assembly I believe should have priority, to start with electoral reform, focusing on managing the” election process.

Even Florian Dusi, member of the Central Election Commission (KQZ), from the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) says leaders' will for a real reform has been missing.

According to him, this is the constant tendency to manipulate with elections.

“Here should be the interest of leaders or political subjects, so they have become an obstacle to electoral reform. It seems that the current system has been perfected by people in understanding the continuing tendency to manipulate, so they have constantly hampered making a literal electoral reform”.

I consider it to be in everyone's interest to engage, to have an electoral reform because the law, current legislation is legislation stemming from the Ahtisaari Pack and I consider that it has already aged in the sense of general social and political developments in the country”.

Under normal conditions, Dushi says if the Parliament were to complete its mandate, the process would be over.

“On the eve of elections this topic could win or be a little more current, yet if we look at the 4-year term of the Parliament and the phase in which it started a few months ago, I think that in normal conditions when elections for the Assembly would be held in regular terms after two years, it would be a long time enough for electoral reform to develop”.

Political analyst Africa Hoti says that since the declaration of Independence no Government was able to complete the mandate.

Therefore, holding successive elections is considering it has hampered this process, reports Online Economy.

“I have the impression that the electoral process and electoral reform were never completed in Kosovo, due to a lack of time, and because of the priorities facing the country at times”.

“If we take the period from declaring Independence around here, we are witnesses to the fact that no governing mandate managed to complete its programme, but that the country passed from crisis to crisis, that is, by elections in the elections. These developments did not provide the comfort and position to address or initiate a reform of the” electoral system.