Avoiding political crisis, parties demand that president be elected by people

Although they are finding compliance with the head of state being elected in this legislature, The LDK, PDK and AAK agree that constitutional changes to the president's election will also be made under electoral reform.

All of this to be avoided, as the political crises that are constantly bringing the country's first choice. But with those estimates, they disagree in Albin Kurti's party and civil society.

LDK MP, at the same time chairman of the Commission for Legislation, Rock Manaj, tells Kosovo that the failure to consensus on the president is bringing continued crisis to the country.

According to him, political parties must find the common language so that the president of the country in the future can stem directly from citizens' votes.

“urgently all political subjects that are represented in The country should sit down and think seriously about electoral and constitutional reform. Includes the change of Constitution Kosovo, but also laws for general and local elections. I think it's good to see that in the framework of electoral reform to make our country, the president of the Republic is elected directly by the citizens of Kosovo because even the competencies that he has as a unifyer, it would be good to stem directly from the people of Kosovo and then have no problems. You see that if we are not able to elect the president of the Republic this is affecting governance and therefore the distribution of the” Assembly, he says.

With such a stance, PDK MP Evgen Thaci-Dragsha, who says the election of president by citizens is now a requirement of time.

I think it is a time requirement to think that the president, or the president, be elected directly by the citizens of Kosovo. The President's position must serve as it is in Conditions as a unifying, non-blocking position. At this moment we have such a case when the president's own election is serving as a deadlock for Kosovo institutions, but also normal life in Kosovo. We have had initiatives in the past that have remained, but I think that electoral reform should start in the near future and see the possibility of the president being elected by the citizens of Kosovo”, she said.

While, Paul Lekaj from the AAK tells Kosovo Press that the party it represents will support any electoral and constitutional reform for electing the president.

“Alliance supports any electoral reform even if we agree that the president will be elected directly with the vote of citizens”, he says.

But with the arguments of the three parties, LVV deputy Dimal Basha disagrees.

He says the problem does not exist with the Constitution, or with the law for the president, but with political parties and their thinking.

In a normal country, if the constitutional spirit were preserved, where a president representing the unity of the people is required, that would be no problem. The problem does not exist with the Constitution, or with the law on president, how much exists with political parties and their thinking within the Parliament... we think that if the parliamentary Republic were preserved the constitutional spirit there would be no problem for any political subject to vote for a consensual, or political president representing the unity of the people. Problems are political subjects, not the constitution, or the form of regulation for electing President”, he declares.

And, Arbere Loja from the Group for Jury and Political Studies says that changing the Constitution for the president is not a solution, because the lack of consensus does not require changing the country's judicial base.

“We consider it to be very disturbing that the fact that it is trying to address the frustrations, or the lack of consensus of the political spectrum by changing the country's judicial base. We consider this to be a wrong approach that the legal basis which regulates the principles of the state should not be changed to adapt the current interests of political parties, or governments. So we don't consider it to be the solution to change the Constitution, because the lack of consensus does not have to change the country's judicial base, especially given that this regulates the principles of the state. What really needs to happen is to change the president's concept among political parties. As the Constitution defines, the president must be political, not represent party interests. We consider that political parties should achieve a maturity to give up the capture of institutions, which reality should represent the unity of the” people, she says.

The political spectre in the country, as well as in the past, has attempted to have the country's president elected under electoral reform. Now and a few years later, though, that is not living.