20 minutes agoTahiri: Pay reduction decision in anti-unconstitutional justice system
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)AAK Parliamentary Group chief Besnik Tahiri has estimated that the Kosovo Government's decision to cut salaries in the justice system is unconstitutional. In a post made on Wednesday's social network, Tahiri has estimated that the Haradinaj Government's decision to raise salaries was also left to power by [...]
In a post made on the social network Facebook on Wednesday, Tahiri has estimated that the Haradinaj Government's decision to raise salaries was also left to power by the Constitution.
“Today, the government broke the Haradinaj Government's decision to raise salaries in the justice system. This was done unconstitutionally, because the Haradinaj Government ruling with a Constitutional Court decision remained in force. Consequently, it is no longer the Haradinaj Government's decision, but the Constitutional Court's decision, which can be changed only by the Constitutional Court, or by the constitutional mandate of Kosovo's sovereign representative”, Tahiri has written.
According to him, the Kurti Government has abolished a Constitutional Court ruling under this decision.
To be the greatest irony, this unconstitutional decision abolishing a Constitutional Court decision takes place on behalf of the return of legitimacy to the country! Imagine, the government as a political body with an administrative decision abolishs a Constitutional Court decision, and it does so on behalf of the restoration of legitimacy”, Tahiri has written.
According to him, there is a practice of the Venice Commission and a constitutional standard that says that the salaries of the justice system can only be reduced in the event of a serious economic and financial crisis and recession, widely praised by internal and external factors.
In Kosovo, this is not the case! At least not for now! What the Venice Commission says, we find not rarely in the constitutional provisions of the former communist countries as a constitutional guarantee. Beyond that, the Venice Commission has said that cutting salaries arbitraryly and without proving the country is in serious economic and financial crisis, constitutes brutal intervention in the justice system”, Tahiri has written.
He has called for the Government's decision to be sent to the Constitutional.
“Call on MPs and the Ombudsman to send this arbitrary and revenge decision to the Constitutional Court for constitutional control and restore constitutionality to the work of the justice system”, Tahiri wrote.
