Civil society urges Government to implement resolutions adopted by Parliament

Movement Executive Director “FOL”, Meddition Demolli-Niman, has said that now and many years everything ends after resolutions are passed.

The resolutions derived from the Kosovo Assembly would have to be of greater importance and not end up as we're used to it now, and the years we see, the resolution is adopted or not, and that's where it ends, since it's not even binding. The framework as the highest organ would have to make them more binding, to see the way it's forced, we've seen when there were times when resolutions were issued that were logically issued, and the government needed to implement them, but we've never seen any detailed reporting of what happened after the adoption of those” resolutions were expressed in a proposal for EO.

Also, according to Demolli-Niman, this legislature will be problematic even with the resolution's own adoption.

“Zaconally the opposition parties that have some process that also want to create a specific process but not always have support, now at this time it is slightly more problematic because the ruling party has more easily the necessary numbers for the adoption of a resolution, it would be a little more problematic to adopt them especially for those coming from opposition parties”, she said.

While Agnes Haxhiu of KDI has estimated that despite the fact that the resolutions are legally non-active acts, the government should not have the comfort of their non-compliance.

“Resolutes are legally non-obligative acts with which the Parliament expresses position on a particular issue and provides recommendations which it considers should be implemented by the executive to improve a certain issue. However, the fact that they are not binding as judicial acts does not mean that it gives government comfort not to take action to implement them” is expressed.

Haxhiu has further stressed that one of the reasons why these resolutions are failing to be implemented is the lack of a particular mechanism measuring their sustainability.

There are many resolutions that have been adopted among the legislatures that have not been implemented, and that is because the Parliament does not have a mechanism that measures the implementation of resolutions except that it approves it does not go back and see where it stands with the implementation of these resolutions, and this is one of the factors that has influenced Government not to take very seriously the resolutions it comes from the Parliament. From time to time, resolutions -- which are the overlapping of another resolution -- have many resolutions to address on the question of dialogue, which if you look at them are basically the same. The other problem is that usually resolutions proposed in the Assembly by specific parliamentary groups do not harmonise with other groups, so they are rare when they find co-operation among all groups”, she has said of EO.

Haxhiu has indicated that the first part of this year's eighth legislature has been proposed in all, seven resolutions -- all from the opposition, where only one has been approved by the Parliament.

“All these resolutions have been proposed by opposition parliamentary groups, three of them are of the PDK, two of the AAK and one of the LDK, and most of them relate to the pandemic situation”, it has ended.