The position pledges efficiency of the Assembly, opposition “threatens” Government That Will Be Unable to Work

The Kosovo Assembly tomorrow will launch the regular autumn session, following the deputies' summer holidays. The ruling party, the Vetevendosje Movement, promises the largest efficiency of the majority in adopting the bills and better management of the hearings. However, opposition parties “threaten the parliamentary majority and the government that there will be normality in the Assembly until new early elections are announced.

In the PDK and AAK underscore that they will not participate in any vote in the Assembly, including international agreements. On the other hand, the legislature's work monitors demand that MPs not use nonparlmanial languages and have regular management of plenary sessions.

Vetevendosje Movement MP Adnan Rrustemi says of Kosova Prees that during the autumn session they will fulfill the whole legislative agenda the government has proposed.

The “Case and the focus of the majority is on realising the legislative plan the government has proposed. Treat all bills that are already in procedure and have been passed in the first reading in the Assembly, during the spring session, and should be handled by working groups and commissions before finally approved. Other bills, expected to be prosecuted in the autumn by the government, are then needed, and the same are important. The focus of the Parliament should be to effectively meet the legislative plan”, he says.

But the chief of the PDK parliamentary group, Abelard Tahiri, says they will take democratic means and actions that are available within the Parliament to prevent the parliamentary majority's work, therefore the Government of Kosovo.

“We will use all democratic means available to us within parliament and abroad for the country to take to elections and have a government that takes the country out of crisis. Kosovo today is an isolated state. Kosovo today is a state that has sanctions from the US and the EU. Kosovo has already entered a vortex of domestic abuse. You see the major abuses that have taken place in state reserves, the major misuses that have occurred with electricity. Now, even the huge failure to touch over 200,000 students for book failure... Every single action will be action, which will prevent the work of this government. We will not participate in any vote that helps this government and prolongs the life of this government. We are working every day to get the country into extraordinary elections and the country to have a government that gets it out of this crisis and sanctions”, Tahiri says.

Harsh with the ruling party is also AAK parliamentary group chief Besnik Tahiri, who says the Vetevendosje Movement has degraded parliamentary life.

He adds that the same sʹka left no room for the opposition to be constructive in the Parliament.

We have had an open discussion with Vetevendosje as a parliamentary group. That discussion was not only in the Parliament but also in the commissions. I see no room to give support to this government at any point and no area. I don't see because it has degraded the greatest possible mass, not only parliamentary life, but also governance. I see no room to be constructive on this subject. The only solution is to confront sovereign”, Tahiri declares.

This approach, however, is viewed as wrong with power attorney Adnan Rrustemi. According to him, the opposition's behaviour is irrational in the Assembly.

The majority's relation to the opposition has always been principled. We have been interested and willing to dialogue, discuss and co-operate in the interest of Kosovo citizens. But the opposition's behaviour of my obedience is completely irrational. They do not understand what they want, oppose and support politically. They have only one thing clear, the despair that is producing the lack of support from citizens, which is being recorded by certain polls is reflected with irresponsible irrational behaviour in the Assembly. I am not against the symbolic and political stake that the opposition can undertake in the Kosovo Assembly. I am, in effect, a supporter of them, but they require a clear and defined request not only within the Assembly but also outside of it”, Rrustemi points out.

On the other hand, the researcher at the Kosovo Institute for Justice(IKD), Naim Jakaj, shows what issues should have the Parliament priority during the autumn session.

The location must prioritize some issues involving internal and external management of its work. Initially, it must ensure that the prosperity during the plenary sessions is the priority of the Speaker of the Parliament. We also have behind the non-parliamentarians language during this legislature, which has been used mostly than past legislatures. We've also had disrespect for the Parliament's regulation. For example, the Assembly has been working for two years without a working programme, despite the new regulation it needs to have the work programme adopted every start of the session, which is not making the Assembly. Another thing the Parliament must have as a priority is to increase transparency in the election of the Parliament's deputies. Today we have no information on how a certain MP votes, as electronic voting is lacking. Another aspect of internal functioning belongs to the phenomenon of failure to reach corum, first by the parliamentary majority then even by the opposition because of the boycott on different topics”, Jakaj declares.

Kosovo Assembly deputies have entered the holiday since July 28th, 2023. On the basis of the Parliament's regulation, people's elected should return to parliamentary life on the second Monday of September 11th.

Last week the opposition had collected 40 signatures, where they called for extraordinary hearings to discuss the issue of providing textbooks, but the same failed due to a lack of majority in the plenary hall.

The Kosovo Assembly during the spring session has been characterised with inflammatory polarisation among opposition parties with the government and the parliamentary majority, which even went through beatings between PDK deputies with cabinet ministers on 13 July.