6 minutes agoLawmakers' arrest, Parliament gets 118 deputies paid 120 salaries
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Legal spaces lead the two MPs -- Rexhepi and Etem Arifi -- to receive salaries from the Kosovo Assembly, even though they are in prison at various locations and for various occasions. Election work monitors as the Kosovo Democratic Institute, this parsdox is explained by lack of legislation. There is no legal provision that [...]
There is no legal provision that defines cases such as the latter that could be denied the MP's salary because they legally continue to be deputies of the Kosovo Assembly”, Agnes Haxhiu said by KDI.
Because of his failure to resign, Deputy Arifi, the full salary, even though in prison, can be obtained by December 23rd, and Selimi by April of next year.
The “What needs to be done is to change and fulfill the Constitution to Article 70, the MP's mandate, either scores 5 and 6 which should be met or changed, depending on. Even to predict such cases as the case now occurring with Arifi and Selimi”, Haxhi said further.
The situation was discussed at the opening session of the Constitutional Court, concerning MP Arifi's case, when the Constitutional Speaker asked Artan Mqira, the legal adviser to the chief Parliamentary Vjosa Osmsni directly.
“What if someone doesn't come to dispute a mandate of an MP sentenced to a decision of a formal form in the Constitutional Court? The Assembly as an institution consisting of MPs, what has the Constitutional Court to undertake?
For his part, Murati was reasoned with lack of regulations, but without giving direct answers to the question of the Constitutional Court's head.
“In this way of losing the mandate, with the conviction for criminal offence more than a year, there is no clear procedure either in the decision-making of the Assembly, or in other constitutions or rules”, Artan Murati, the legal adviser to Kosovo Assembly Speaker, said further.
Salaries received by Parliament deputies are highly valued for the Kosovo standard.
The Kosovo Parliament's “Deputes receive about 1,500 euros monthly wages, without even counting their participation in different commissions, as well as their presence in parliamentary sessions. So their monthly salary totals about 2 thousand euros”, Euronews journalist Albania reported.
Arrested by the Special is also the chairman of PDK, Kadri Wessel, who was also deputy. But he resigned from the list, which was Fadil Nura. After a six-month lack of presentation at the session was cut off, then MP Arifi will replace Qazim Kundman and Rexhep Selimi will be replaced by Taulant Kryeziu.
