Parliament is recommended not to approve ombudsman's decision to elect 5 vices

The Commission for Human Rights, Gender Equality, the Petition of the Ungenerated Persons has recommended that it not adopt the ombudsman's recommendations concerning the election of five of his deputies.

MPs at the plenary session will have their own money for voting the names of candidates for deputy ombudsman, which is considered irregular by the commission.

Commission deputies have not supported the report, and the same have added to a clarification through which the findings indicate to what they estimate the process has not been conducted properly.

“The Commission for Human Rights, Gender Equality, Petition of the Ungenerated Persons has reviewed the report with recommendations for selecting five deputy ombudsmans, and recommends the Parliament not to approve the ombudsman's proposal for electing five deputy ombudsman”, the chairman of the commission, Duda Balje, has said.

Stressing that there is no problem with the names being sent to the House for a vote, MPs from the Commission for Human Rights have stated that candidates for deputy ombudsman have lost the deadline to complain to the court, since the same are told to submit their complaints to the commission.

But the commission, as the Legal Office has clarified, has the right to review complaints, but not even make any decisions about them.

At today's commission meeting, MPs have discussed several hours before they issue with recommendation.

Kosovo's deputy head of the Parliament from the Vetevendosje Movement ranks, Saranda Boguyevci, has considered disturbing the fact that such concessions are made in the ombudsman institution.

There is a law that recognizes every citizen's right to a complaint, which this is related to a court, the other problem is here, the fact that our complaints as a commission have been addressed has broken a right to those who have complained, it is their right to guarantee the law for complaint, it's in vain now, it's past the deadline and he has no chance to complain. For me it is disturbing that a reliable institution as an ombudsman institution has such concessions”, Bogujevci said.

MP from the ranks of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Eliza Hoxha, has said MPs at the session should be sent clarification by the commission about the uncertainties encountered during the process.

We can't pretend everything's okay and send a rationale that the whole process has been in order and <x1 light> ”, and now we're sending the names. We are sending the entire document, there is no need for all the details, but for the process a clarification should be sent, and they will decide whether they want to proceed further”, Hoxha said.

Hoxha has also received criticism for failing to hear the candidates' complaints on the part of the commission, which she said is their right to be heard in the Parliament, despite the commission's failure to make any decisions about them.

While Commission for Human Rights chairman Duda Balje said the commission must come up with recommendation today.

We have the ombudsman institution, which is practically nonfunctional, even with our own guilt, because we're doing jobs that we're not competent for, why we haven't made decisions the first day that we're not competent. All we're talking about today is there's only two roads or we turn the process into zero, we can vote or not. We practically decide today to turn the process into zero. We've been talking about this for three weeks, and now it's out without recommendation”, Balje said.

Kosovo's Assembly votes five people whose deputy yoke of ombudsman with a three-year mandate and re-election option.