KKP: Minister Haxhiu's statements coincide with a recklessness and inadequacy

“The KKP, states that even after the Constitutional Court's decision, the free word has again been misused, this misuse, which is and remains sharply outside democratic law and much more so when it comes from top state officials. Even today, such statements were heard by Justice Minister Albulen Haxhiu at the media conference, which coincides with such a pronounced indiscretion and inconsistencies that go up to countering acts that come out of the highest constitutional institution, stating that the “most important for it is the individual interest of some members of the KKP<62> and beyond that, a senior government official, to the surprise, disagrees with the decision of a higher institution, such as the Constitutional Court,<>, in their municipality.

The KKP said the publication of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo's ruling on the Law of the Prosecutorial Council, which it has declared unconstitutional and has eventually brought down, fully confirms the publicly expressed attitudes and concerns of representatives of the prosecutorial system, so that this law is not adopted as such.

“Parapraly, for the sake of public transparency, KPK, has expressed its stance several times before the opinion by successive statements and reactions to a non-recognition of the process of drafting the KPK Bill and the introduction of biased and dysfunctional elements, as well as for inciting the ministry of Justice and Government to proceed and adopt the Bill without a draft consulting the final actors of this process and without expecting additional comments of the Venice Commission. Also, the KKP has systematically highlighted the executive's expressed shortcomings regarding the failure to take into account proposals issued by the Law Rule Strategy and Proposals of representatives of the prosecutorial system and other justice system and outside of it, which actually constituted a tendency to violate the independence of the KKP and the State Prosecutor, as independent and constitutional institutions. In this context, therefore, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo removed all existing dilemmas regarding this issue, first, by making the decision to completely break the Law for the Prosecutorial Council and, secondly, preventing the violation of KPK's independence and legalisation of political influence in the Kosovo Republic's constitutional system”.

The KKP said that the Constitutional Court, with the making of this fair decision, permanently affirmed the constitutional right to non-interference.

Kosovo's “Prosecutorial Council states it remains committed to supporting general reform processes in the prosecutorial system and will also make efforts in the future that, together with all state mechanisms of the country, supporters and precious international partners, co-operate in any kind of legislative initiative and other initiatives, aimed at reforming the needed, in order to empower the rule of law in Kosovo and Kosovo's prosecutorial system to do its independent, professional, transparent work, not exposing any kind of pressure or interference from different parties of the (4)6).