Miftaraj explains procedures for electing the president

In the current case of electing the new president, according to Ehat Miftaraj from the Kosovo Institute for Justice, procedures for electing the president must begin on 5 April.

Miftaraj, in a proposal for Online Economy, has said that under the Constitution, procedures for electing the president begin a month before the end of the president's post mandate.

“Based on the Constitution at least from a precedent when dealing with a acting president who has a regular, non-compliance mandate would have to take a month before the mandate is expired to initiate the new president's appointment procedure. With this logic until 5 April of this year's Kosovo Assembly, political parties must begin the procedure of electing the new president, he has said.

The right to run for president has all citizens who meet the criteria set by the Constitution.

A person to run for the country's first one should provide 30 deutette signatures, but an MP cannot provide signatures for two candidates.

Each citizen who meets the age criteria has the right to run, but for that it needs at least 30 signatures of MPs in the Kosovo Assembly”.

“A deputy signing for a candidate has no right to give for the second, in this direction we should have at least two candidates who by secret vote in the Kosovo Assembly”, Miftaraj said.

He has indicated that the country's presidential candidate for president in the first two rounds should get at least 80 votes, while in the third round, only 61 votes are needed.

“In the first and second round takes at least 80 votes to vote on the new president, and if this does not happen in the first two rounds, then 61 votes are needed in the third round to get the new president”, Miftaraj has indicated.

Vjosa Osmani is the VV candidate for president. She has been a lawyer for the president's office from November 5th 2020, where in the quality of the Speaker of the Parliament, she had taken the post following Hashim Thaci's resignation, to which the Special Court has filed an indictment.

On March 14th, the president's task leader, Glauk Konjufca, who is also chairman of the Assembly, has taken office.