Commission for Buxhet answers Constitutional for electricity in the north, opposition rejects

The member of this commission, Life Statovci, who has drafted the answer to the Constitutional Court, said three questions have been asked by the Constitutional Court, the first is whether this commission has reviewed the Commission's recommendation for Economy on authorisations and recommendation of paying losses in the north.

The second question, according to Statovci, is whether this commission has been obliged to offer such an opinion, and the third what this commission thinks about the letter or the answer it has given him. This is the Constitutional Court.

MP Life Statovci points out that she referred to the three demands and three questions raised by the Constitutional Court in this case, has referred to the Parliament's regulation.

The answers first address the three aspects raised, whether this issue has had to be handled by the Board Commission. So in response, I have referred to the constitution regulation where it says that the Functional Commission does not receive opinion or opinion from other commissions, so in this case the Commission for Boards, Labour and Transference also that finance overseer did not have on the basis of regulation any obligation to give opinion”, she stressed.

The deputy chairman of this commission, Mergim Lushtaku of the PDK, said that despite paying electricity in the north from COST is constitutional offence, this commission is not correct to respond to the constitution at all.

For this case, unfortunately, it's about paying the current in the north, it's obviously not prosecuted in all the commissions, and in my opinion, it shows that there is an even constitutional violation and the law on public finance management. Despite the opinion that could be given to the Commission for Business, Work and Transfere, I, as a member of the commission, will also present a parachute to the Constitutional Court. You have numbers, you can even pass a decision like this, but it's not right”, Lushtaku stressed.

Even LDK deputy Avdullah Hoti said how the commission should not give recognition to COST. Until he said that the assembly committed legal violations with recommendations to pay the COSTT current.

For the third question, I don't believe that we can, nor should we give our assessment as a commission for the answer that COST has given to the Constitutional Court. Who are we? What competence we have as a commission that we appreciate whether it is appropriate or not. My suggestion is that our response from the commission is very simple: The Commission has not considered the Commission's recommendation for Economy before going to the assembly. Even in the last question, that we cannot give appreciation for COST's answers to the Constitution... the Assembly has not actually made a decision, has given a list of recommendations it has sent to COST. When the assembly has dealt with this case, it has even committed legal violations and these violations cannot hide behind collective decisions. It's been violated by the law on commercial society, it can't be the Parliament to decide by sharing COST tools of”, Hoti stressed.

These statements of Hoti have been responded to by VV deputy Eman Nthman. As a recommendation, he said there are no legal violations because, as he put it, there is no obligation.

The Deputet Hoti fell against itself. At first you stressed that it is the recommendation that has come out of the Assembly, and then you stressed that the Parliament has decided to illegally disseminate itself. True, this has been a recommendation, not a decision. As a recommendation cannot have executive power and can't even be a legal offense because it doesn't owe”, Zmman stressed.

In the Replicate to the MP Ndhamni, Avdullah Hoti said what Kurti Government has done is to flee the confrontation with the political problem in the north.

It is good to respect each other, some MPs in this commission play the role of commenting and statements by other MPs. Take responsibility for what I say, and I am fully aware of what I am saying. Even in past governments, they have shared tools for paying energy there (in the north), because it is a political problem still unsolved. What this government has done has been trying to trap itself, even to escape facing the problem. What you're telling me, MP Canman, is confirming everything I'm thinking about this case... The institutions have been amended, and now the issue is in the Constitutional Court and this discussion of this completely unnecessary commission for a problem that has been created without any need”, he said.

Likewise, the AAK deputy, Pal Lekaj, has said the Parliament's recommendations have been interference in the competencies of the government.

As for this matter, I don't think the Commission for Boards has handled it, so what we've been asked we can only respond to that matter we haven't handled. For the north of us, we've been against, I've been against, because the executive base of who allows COSTT for treatment and spending that money is known. It's not the assembly I want to decide who and how much to pay. The Assembly has defeated the Kosovo government with an obligation to pay for it, which I have never been for. We as a assembly have entered where we shouldn't, but it is the Constitutional Court that will say its word”, Lekaj said.

Commission Chairman for Business, Work and Transfere Armen Muja said the statement proposed by Statovci contains all elements of an answer to the Constitutional.

The third element is also, to offer your comments on the COST letter of October 18th 2021. And in essence what MP Statovci and MP Hoti stated, I'm not looking at matches in terms of these statements. So what is being said has an agreement, it is simply made on the basis of the Law for energy and for commercial societies, and we have not entered into other matters. This statement proposed by MP Statovci contains all elements of an answer as much as we cannot respond to anything. I suggest that if there are any other statements from MPs to propose and toss it to”, Muja has said.

Different, The PDK in May of this year had submitted to the Constitutional Court recommendations issued by the Assembly for compensation of the current spent in the north worth 11m euros.