2 hours agoList checkup: CEC Says to Act on Constitutional Court
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The Central Election Commission has asked the Kosovo Judiciary Council to show whether on lists with candidates for Kosovo Assembly deputies, there are names that have no right to run. CEC spokesman Valmir Elezi said that in addition to the KDP, five other institutions today have been addressed with the request for verification [...]
The Central Election Commission has asked the Kosovo Judiciary Council to show whether on lists with candidates for Kosovo Assembly deputies, there are names that have no right to run.
CEC spokesman Valmir Elezi said that in addition to the KDR, five other institutions today have been addressed with the request to verify MPs' candidates in early elections to be held on February 14th. The same CEC demanded that by January 20th they respond to verification.
“Germat '%a', épé and ʹqu at Article 29 stress that the candidate cannot be a person who is: a) judge or prosecutor in Kosovo or elsewhere; p) by means of the court's decision has been denied the right to be a candidate; and q) convicted of criminal acts with a final court ruling in the last three years (3). Therefore, we have asked the Kosovo Judiciary Council to send us the names of people from the candidate list if they are judges; if they are subject to the court's decision by which the right to be a candidate has been denied; and if they have been convicted of criminal acts with a final court ruling in the last three (3) times”, he said.
At the end of last year, when the constitutional court found that the Hoti Government has been legally elected, it also stated that any person who in the last three years has been convicted of criminal acts with a firm-shaped decision cannot run for Kosovo Assembly deputies.
The Central Election Commission will act in accordance with the Constitutional Court act, as well as the law on general elections”, the CEC spokesman said.
The institutions, which are required to verify the names that are on the lists with parliamentary candidates, have until January 20th to respond to the CEC.
“In the spirit of constitutional and legal obligations for inter-institute co-operation we have requested from these institutions that in the shortest possible term, but not later than January 20, 2021, at 12: 00 p.m., answer our requests for verification”, Elez said.
The Judiciary Council, the Election Panel for Anxiety and Parashtre, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Kosovo Agency for Intelligence, the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Defence are institutions that will make the verification of persons who are on the list for candidates for MPs in the Kosovo Assembly.
