Daka: Following Constitutional Decision, Time to Declare Final Election Results

These three parties had complained about the Supreme Court's decisions to count votes from abroad in last October 6th elections, though they had come out of the legal deadline.

Daka said a dilemma has been resolved that has caused them to have a headache. According to her, the CEC has taken the stance that votes coming from abroad should be in Kosovo 24 hours in the morning of elections, which is also defined with laws in force.

I am happy that we have been resolved by a dilemma, which was raised during the 2019 elections, and which has caused us many headaches and has actually turned out that what the CEC applied has been right. I'm glad what we've applied to” has been proven.

“The CEC has taken the stance that votes coming from outside Kosovo should come 24 hours before election day. So as the Law for General Elections predicts, it turns out that this was also confirmed by the Constitutional Court”.

Daka has clarified that the timing of the results will be reduced after this decision.

This is good because it's going to cut us short of the results, because according to the 2019 practice, we've had to wait for votes coming from the diaspora even after election day”.

For this initial complaint, the Electoral Panel for Anxiety and Parashtre (PZAP), on November 3rd, had decided that the package of votes reached outside the legal deadline -- 24 hours from election day -- should not be counted.

But, the Supreme One had decided on two occasions on the count of outside ballot packages. On November 5th, the Supreme Court had ruled in favour of LVV's complaint to count 1806 packaged mail-income ballot after October 5th. He had reconfirmed the decision made on October 30th of that year.

NISMA-AKR-PD, which managed to pass the threshold and become part of the Assembly, had sent the course to the Constitutional Court. The Constitution on Thursday has ruled that the Supreme Court's judgments on October 30th and November 5th are not in line with Article 3 of the No.1 European Convention on Human Rights concerning Article 45 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo.

The Constitution also found that PZAP's decisions on 3 November were in line with Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 of the European Convention for Human Rights in connection with Article 45 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo.