Administrative Guidance for Elections in the North: Valdete Daka explains step by step why she does so

Local Power Management Ministry has published administrative guidelines enabling citizens to withdraw mayors through a petition.

This directive was drafted in the context of steps Kosovo executive is taking for full extension of the situation in northern Kosovo, as requested by the international community.

The former CEC chairman, VAldete Daka, says this instruction will be built into the hands of citizens.

Complete. Periscope below brings Mrs. Daka:

“Determination of the mayors or leaving them in this way is a little weird because citizens of a municipality, only when they are dissatisfied with the mayor can get such an initiative.

Otherwise, it's done. Guns in the Hands of Citizens Those who, Every time they want to collect 20% of the signatures and start the procedure to evacuate the mayors.

This, because with this Administrative Guide, is not determined which mayors are involved, This applies to all Kosovo mayors, not only to the north.

This Administrative Direction gives some competencies to the CEC, which the CEC does not have. So with an act of law, there can be no adding to the competencies that a constitutional institution does not have.

So the CEC is in motion only when we have a State President's decree, and that decree is for election proclamation.

Administrative guidelines can no longer become election proclamationOr the transitional provisions it has here, where it says the CEC will be competent to organise the departure of the mayors.

For me, This is absurd., because the CEC with the Election Law has the power to organise elections announced by the president of state, not by an act of sublaw.

So a constitutional competence can be described through an act of law.

Until the signature collection, it's OK, so it can be because it's envisioned with the Law on Local Self-Government. This directive regulates only procedures, so deadlines that are also indiscreet, but it's still another issue, but the main issue is that with transitional disobedience The CEC is given the opportunity to organise voting for the removal of the mayors by basing on the Law on the general and local elections.

Under the Law for General Elections, the CEC is put to the moment when it has a President's Secret, it is the deadlines stemming from the moment elections are announced, and deadlines and procedures are based on that date.

On which date the CEC will organise, if it comes to the vote.

Then there are many problems that arise with different deadlines, with voter lists, how they will be made.

So there are two completely different institutions.

Here we go. with a petition And when it comes to petitioning, the outcome is referendum.

What have they thought when the Law on Local Self-government was passed, I don't know, but I think it's been about a situation where citizens are dissatisfied and can't wait until a procedure for their departure.

But apparently it has remained half because the Referendum Law must also exist, under which the referendum is then organised.

It's my opinion that this leads nowhere. For me, however, the main issue is that the CEC has been given a competence with an Administrative Guide, competence which it does not have”, says Mrs. Okay, I see Periscope.

What does administrative instruction say?

MAPL Minister Elbert Krasniqi published the administration directive, which requires the 20 per cent support of a municipality's voters to oust the head of local government.

According to Central Election Commission data, in April elections this year in Leposaviq there were 13,318 eligible citizens in Zubin Potok 6.661, in Zvecan 6,998 already on the final list of voters in North Mitrovica were 18.18.

In Guide It is said that gathering these signatures should be done on the basis of free will and without pressure.

Initially, a group, called the initiative, must be formed made up of at least three persons representing the request from the respective municipality.

This group, before the launch of the signing collection, must announce the chairman of the municipal assembly in the respective municipality of HINA and the Central Election Commission. Later, the leader informs the chairman of the respective municipality, the relevant ministry for local power and the CEC of the initiative group's request.

After accepting the application, no later than five days, the mayor of the municipal assembly examines it and registers the initiative group as authorised parties. If this is not done within the deadline, then the initiative group may ask the CEC to review the application and register it as an authorised party.

No later than five days from the census, the initiative group is due to present to the chairman of the municipal assembly needed documentation, including the signing list and authorisation of the municipal assembly for the exploitation of public space for signing collection.

Later, the CEC -- no later than five days from accepting the request -- announces the mayor of the municipal assembly, the initiative group for the total number of voters in the respective municipality, and the number of signatures required.

The initiative group has 30 days to collect the physical signatures. The deadline can only be extended once in 15 days.

The signatures are then handed over to the mayor of the municipal assembly and the CEC. After that, the institution of elections verify the signatures, and if they are not as much as 20 percent of voters are required, the motion initiatives have a 10-day deadline to meet that quota.

If the CEC later confirms that the relevant signatures have been collected, then the vote is organised to remove the mayor from office. The vote is organised by the CEC.

The administrative directive also explains the voting process for leaving a municipality mayor's post. The vote on this issue should be held no later than 45 days after confirming that 20 percent of quotas have been met.

If 50 percent +1 of citizens on voter lists vote in favour of leaving the mayor, he is considered to have left the post. After that, the result is sent to Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani, who has a legal deadline of 30 to 45 days for announcing extraordinary elections.

But if 50 per cent no figure is reached during the vote, the initiative is considered to have failed and, according to administrative direction, a similar initiative can be undertaken only after 12 months.

Due to the Albanian mayors' entry into municipal buildings with the assistance of the Kosovo Police in late May, local Serbs staged protests in Leposaviq, Zubin Potok and Zvecan.

Tensions escalated into violence on 30 May in Zvecan, after Serb protesters clashed with members of NATO's peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, KFOR. Dozens of people on both sides were injured in the clashes.

The international community at the helm with the United States and the European Union have called for Kosovo and Serbia to reduce tensions. From Pristina, they have called for holding new elections, meanwhile, from Belgrade to encourage Serbs to participate in the election process./Periscopi/