Thaci will address Constitutional for time zone and refuse proposal for mandate

The Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo has defined clear procedures and post-time procedures for the Kosovo Assembly Constitution, but not for the formation of the Government.

This has led to Kosovo becoming involved in successive political and institutional drives after each party elections in recent years.

Therefore, those who boast of taking credit for whether the drafting of the Kosovo Constitution or the so-called “Babylonians of the Constitution” cannot boast at all in this situation of the current crisis for forming the new government.

However, the joint conclusion of all connoisseurs is that there is a constitutional vacuum regarding procedures and deadlines that determine actions to form the new government after parliamentary elections, and there is no other way to address this constitutional vacuum except addressing this issue by the Constitutional Court.

Therefore, the main burden for addressing this issue to the Constitutional Court -- at this stage of forming new institutions -- is to the president of the Republic of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, who is guarantor of the democratic functioning of institutions.

From sources close to the presidency it is confirmed that the president's office has already started preparing material, respectively, to address this issue for treatment by the Constitutional Court.

This information on IndexOnline has also confirmed a senior presidency official under anonymity. According to this official, it is about two core issues or questions that the Constitutional Court is expected to address.

The first “has to do with the available timeline of the party or the winning coalition to propose to the president of the Republic of Kosovo the candidate for prime minister or the mandate for forming the new government. So, after the Kosovo Parliament's constitutional constitution, the Constitutional Court must set a specific and reasonable deadline within which the ruling party or coalition should be obliged to propose its candidate or candidate for prime minister/president for forming the new government. While, the second issue, it relates to the situation of what happens when the ruling party or coalition of parliamentary elections refuses to propose to the president of the Republic of Kosovo the candidate for prime minister?

President Thaci is expected to request the Constitutional Court of interpretation and clarification on these issues by the end of this week.