LVV sends Thaci's decision to Constitution for delaying elections in northern Mitrovica Podujevo

The Vetevendosje Movement Parliamentary Group has submitted to the Constitutional Court the requirement for assessing the constitutionality of President Hashim Thaci's unconstitutional decisions for delaying extraordinary elections for the mayor of the northern Podujevo and Mitrovica municipality.

This year's February 6th “, citizens of the Bessian municipality continue to be deprived of their right to the Constitutions to elect their representative as mayor and to have local governance that they have chosen through free elections, with the excuse that they endanger public health. Serbia's elections in Kosovo were organised yesterday, and with this case this excuse has completely fallen. Because how can it be explained that Serbia's elections can be organised while those of Kosovo's own municipalities, not”, says the report, writes news.net.

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Today, the Parliamentary Group of Movement V ENVENTION! submitted to the Constitutional Court the requirement for assessing the constitutionality of the unconstitutional decisions of the president of the Republic of Kosovo for the postponement of extraordinary elections for the mayor of the Belgrade and Northern Mitrovica municipality.

On February sixth of this year, citizens of the Bessian municipality continue to be deprived of their right to the Constitutions to elect their representative as mayor and to have local governance that they have chosen through free elections, with the excuse that they endanger public health. Serbia's elections in Kosovo were organised yesterday, and with this case this excuse has completely fallen. Because how can it be explained that Serbia's elections can be organised while those of Kosovo's own municipalities are not.

What's the order? That we have less rights? That the Serb minority is not responsible for our government in public health? Whatever the reason is scandalous and unacceptable.

The Constitution of the Republic, as well as international conventions on civil and political rights, guarantee the infallible right to choose and be elected. The municipality is a fundamental unit of local self-government in the Republic of Kosovo, which enjoys high levels of local self-government and encourages and ensures the active participation of all citizens in the process of decision-making municipal organs.

Everyone has the right to participate in the rule of his country, directly or through freely elected representatives. These constitutional rights of citizens are enabled through the proclamation and organisation of free and direct elections. No one has the right to authorisation, much less the president to arbitrately and outside his competencies, unable to exercise and fulfil these rights through the delay without the deadline of holding elections for mayor.

On the contrary, the president's constitutional and legal responsibility is to set the date of elections in the legally defined deadlines. Following the resignation of the mayor of the municipality, early local elections are announced by the president of Kosovo. Early elections are announced no later than ten (10) days after the resignation, which cannot be held in more than 30 days and no later than 40pé (45) days after the breakup.

With the president's decisions to postpone indefinitely holding elections for the Bessina municipality's chairman, but ultimately for choosing the mayor of the Northern Mitrovica municipality, the president has deprived citizens of the right to choose and choose, as defined by Article 45 of the Constitution. The president's decision to postpone holding elections in Besiana and Mitrovica is contrary to the Constitution of the Republic, as well as to international conventions integrated in the Constitutions as well as to the good practices and European Charter of Local Self-Government.