Limaj after meeting with Thaci: Avoiding Elections, We Are for Regular Government

Social Democrat Initiative Chairman Fatmir Limaj has spoken after meeting with President Hashim Thaci.

Limaj before reporters said President Thaci should avoid the election date.

He said the president presented their position to him and most of the deputies who are for another solution, not for elections.

“We believe that in this situation considering other parties' positions, we propose that the president using the constitution carefully consider the possibility to avoid early elections, we said that Kosovo in this case as political leaders, as deputy, should have in mind one thing to preserve the competence of each institution. These past days, there has been a tendency to get involved in the competencies of Parliament, the president and Government must understand that Parliament is the highest institution and that no one can usurp or dominate the Kosovo Parliament. The highest institution of Parliament and Kosovo is parliamentary democracy and no one can usurp competencies”, Limaj said.

Limaj said that as an MP, as a citizen and political leader, they should be careful not to allow any other institution to be involved in Parliament, because it would disrupt the parliamentary system.

“From 2010, Kosovo was constantly in early elections, in the first three cases there was a no-confidence motion for the government, in one case there was resignations, but in no case so far as Kosovo's Independent Republic has never delivered parliament, but most MPs. Political parties have joined in the Parliament, and by their own will they have dissolved parliament. In all of these, the president has taken only one act, the decree for election proclamation, so even in such situations, the president of Kosovo has no room for the dissolution of parliament. The voices we're hearing, it's dangerous to give the president this right because we're the Parliamentary Republic, not the presidential. To preserve our state, and it is preserved when the Kosovo Parliament is in the era, most MPs so far want other solutions, not the distribution of parliament, and that attitude was presented to the president, and neither he nor the government has the right to take over the competencies of the Kosovo Parliament”, he added. /Periscopi/