Over 50% of ongoing sessions, monitors criticise the legislature for failing to ensure quorum

In addition to the number of bills, criticism is also due to lack of transparency, as it is still being voted by hand.

Naim Jakaj from the Kosovo Institute for Justice (IKD), the work of the Parliament does not see much productive, due to the small number of bills voted.

He says only 117 bills have managed to be voted in two readings.

“According to the report we published last Friday, we said legislative activity in the Assembly has been forwarded with inefficiency in adopting specific bills. We have had in 2022, 54 agenda points that were carried in 2023, of which are almost 18 bills that were carried, some second reading, and some reading first”.

“Some have been reviewed but failed to get the appropriate vote on the part of the Assembly for the reasons of quorum. We have seen that legislative activity was forwarded by 117 bills that have taken the final verdict of the Parliament, out of them 111 are approved, 6 refused, and another success has been the adoption of the new Assembly regulation, which has not been changed since 10x1>, Jakaj said, for Online Economy.

Another problem with the work of the Parliament is the lack of quorum. In this regard, Jakaj says that 53 percent of the sessions are ongoing.

If there is agreement on the agenda in the priority, the timer when the session starts and doesn't end properly for certain points, then that's the non-fixes. Last year has been passed with more than half of the following” session.

The “3 sessions are with five follow-ups, so if we look at it in total, 53 percent of the sessions are ongoing, in the meantime 22 of the 38 regular sessions are 54 continuation”, Jakaj says further.

But otherwise do you think Arber Thaci from the Kosovo Democratic Institute (KDI). He says the legislature for the years 2022-23 has performed satisfactoryly.

He says that the main problem that continues to convey this legislature is transparency, as the vote is done by hand.

And we can generally state that the work of the Parliament through 2022 has been effective and that this is evidenced by numbers. The Convention over 2002 has adopted over 110 laws, which, by number if compared with past legislatures in each year, this number turns out to be larger, this is probably also due to the fact that it is dealing with a consolidated parliamentary majority that facilitates granting MPs' will for specific bills”.

For this year, the Assembly has also shown a deadlock in certain areas. One of the most important is proving the steps back to transparency, mainly the use of the old hand voting technique has hurt the public's process of informing of the vote that the appointed MPs do in relation to the specific bills, and here I can say that perhaps the Parliament has taken a step back”, says Thaci.

And the main problem of this legislature for Thaci is the lack of quorum. He says this problem is continuing to deteriorate.

The quorum memory presents the main problem of this legislature, but it also presents a problem inherited from the past. Unfortunately, the trend of this problem is in constant deterioration, since this problem in the numeric sense has been less exposed during 2022, while during 2023 it is thus far sufficiently exposed. Now as we see a large number are failing from the beginning. In each session, whose voting fails due to lack of quorum”, Thaci said.