Government Kurti fail to process laws in the Assembly, only budget approved

The budget law is the only one the deputies of the 7th Parliament legislature in Kosovo have adopted. Although for about 50 days the Kurti Government was fully competent, they could not send the legislative agenda for approval to parliament. The executive reasons for downloading and short time as they were “powerful”. While political analysts say the incumbent government has no right and the mandate to proceed with legal initiatives.

Acting Justice Minister Albulen Haxhiu tells Kosovo that among the reasons why they have not been able to submit laws to the Parliament are the delay of the governing programme and legislative agenda.

We have not had the governing programme adopted in the Government of Kosovo, nor the legislative agenda, which is voted in the Kosovo Assembly. Not having these two documents because we were harmonizing the governing program with all dictatorships. The motion for the government's dismissal occurred, and the situation became as it became”, she says.

The lack of law initiative in the Assembly, political analyst Rasim Aliaj, also linked it to taking office executives of key figures such as Glauk Konjufca and Albulen Haxhiu. According to him, even the deputies of the VV parliamentary group were to take legal initiatives.

“over all this time the seventh legislature has managed to prosecute and vote only amendments or the Law on the Budget. This is widely seen as having to do with some kind of anemia of the work of deputies of the Vetevendosje Movement. This probably involves taking office of key figures such as Glauk Konjufca and Albulen Haxhiu”, Aliaj said.

While IKD director Ehat Miftaraj says of Kosova pris that the incumbent government of Prime Minister Kurti cannot exercise legislative competencies in the Assembly.

A government in office has no right and mandate to send legal initiatives to the Assembly. At the moment when a government is not right and cannot exercise such competence, it influences that this government is unable to submit a governing plan-program, which is the basis of a government to implement what it has promised during the campaign. In such a situation when the government cannot exercise its powers, or the assembly is dysfunctional, it cannot exercise its mandate, of course, find a way out”, he says.

Lack of passing laws in the Assembly has also caused damage in the struggle against pandemic. Kosovo Assembly Speaker Vjosa Osmani has been demanding a draft of a Law for the Prevention of Individual 19, but such is being disabled by the opposition.