Opposition urges sanctions against MPs missing in sessions

Kosovo Assembly deputies continue to be absent at parliamentary hearings, as there are no penalties for their shortages.

Although there is a regulation that sanctions deputies “in addition to”, where with a lack of 6 sessions, the MP's mandate is lifted, this has not happened.

That sanctions against missing MPs are calling for the two opposition parties, PDK and AAK.

PDK MP Ariana Musliu-Shoshi finds the absence of MPs meaningless, while adding that an MP should assume responsibility for his absence.

“It is very meaningless and very irresponsible that an MP does not come to the session or attend Commission meetings. If you have decided to be a deputy, to be a representative of citizens, to be their voice, and to represent their interests, you have to be very active and you have to participate in all sessions, except when you have a family or health reason that you don't let it come, otherwise it would be a primary job for an MP. There is personally no meeting of the commission and no session that I have missed, and in what I miss there is a family or health reason”, she said.

The “Mbi all, of course, should be sanctioned, because it is not fair to call sessions and not have MPs holding sessions or to have quorum on parliamentary commissions. I know it's in the process of the Parliamenting Rules, and I know that sanctions are being seen for MPs not participating in parliamentary commissions”, she said.

Her colleague from the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo Pal Lekaj agrees.

He says the MP's absence should be sanctioned in pay. For this, he has invited opposition and opposition positions to be present at parliamentary hearings and commissions.

However, any MP who is not active and does not participate in the hearings, because it is voted to contribute and express the voice of the citizens, in his absence, must be punished at wages, but we should also have a Assembly regulation, although it is one that if he does not participate in six sessions, that MP is dismissed, I think we should be more rigorous in this direction. The AAK extends the position and opposition to be much more active and stay in sessions because all hearings are conducted for the benefit of citizens and for the adoption of laws that are necessary time to regulate a certain” segment,

For a month, currently, a Parliament deputy has a basic salary of 1 488 euros. In addition, if they hold two sessions for a month, they receive 240 euros in wages, while if they hold two commission meetings they receive 160 euros.