Smaca: The Constitution will not announce the decision before the appointed date

On Friday was the deadline when the parties were able to deposit their comments to the Constitutional Court in terms of the merits of Vetevendosje's request for assessing the constitutionality of the president's 30 April decree. This right was exploited by institutional and political party leaders.

A day after, connoisseurs of constitutional and judicial cases are declared for the court and timing to make the decision.

Riza Smaka believes this court will neither delay nor announce its decision before the 29 May date.

I don't believe I'm going to announce it before the 29th, but it won't delay. It would be good not to postpone, otherwise Kosovo I has institutions and has the government with all competencies because there is neither the provision in the constitution nor any law under which the government's authorisations would be narrowed during the period when it is in office” he told RTK.

Meanwhile, the director of the Kosovo Institute for Justice, Ehat Miftaraj, thinks otherwise. Miftaraj says the Constitutional Court on the basis of previous practice does not mean that it is obliged to wait for that deadline.

” Taking on the urgent nature of this requirement, taking on the basis that we already have a government in office and the need for the Republic of Kosovo to have democratic institutions elected on the basis of what the Constitutional Court's constitution and practice determines, I think that the Constitutional Court will make a decision before May 29th”.

Shortly after President Hashim Thaci decreed the LDK representative, Avdullah Hoti, for forming the new government, the Vetevendosje Movement sent the decree to the Constitutional Court, and that the latter issued unprecedented measures by the end of this month.