Powers Urged to Keep Your Hands Off the System of Justice

The Constitutional Court has so far not responded to Prime Minister Kurti's allegations of, as he has said, blocking positive and progressive reforms, but connoisseur and monitoring of the justice system estimates Kurti's statements are interference in the work of the Court and the independence of the justice system.

Former Supreme Court Chairman Fejzullah Hasani says such an approach of the Government should be changed because, according to him, it hurts Kosovo internationally as well.

Any license plate of these independent institutions regardless of what has been the prime minister's goal is certainly seen as interfering with the work of the Constitutional Court. If we want to be part of European mechanisms we need to change this approach and not interfere with their driving work, and unless there are direct effects on the work of institutions there are negative impacts on the international issue for Kosovo”, Hasani told Rtv21.

At the Kosovo Institute for Justice, meanwhile, they estimate that the approach of power to justice institutions is unacceptable and that the Court should be left alone in its work.

The disaster that such an approach is not innovation. The entire mandate of this government has been associated with such intrusive statements. In relation to the Constitutional Court and other justice institutions, such an approach is unacceptable and is openly an intervention. Through the trial of the Court.. With such an approach, it gives the impression that the government is trying to hide behind its failures in many areas to make major reform in the justice system”, said Gzim Shala from the Kosovo Institute for Justice.

In the Committee for Jury and Political Studies, they seek the Government to distance itself from the language which, they say, constituted interference in the independence of the justice system.

“As GLPS, we appreciate that the prime minister and other activists within the Government of Kosovo are obliged to respect the principle of separation of powers and to distance themselves from the use of language, which results in intervention in the work and independence of the justice system. Instead of criticism, the Executive should ensure that legislative initiatives proposed and adopted in the Assembly are in line with the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo and address the Constitutional Court's judgments eventually and fairly, said Liridon Salihi of the Group for Jury and Political Studies.

During the current Government's mandate with dozens of laws ended in the Constitutional Court. Some were completely knocked down, some partially and some continue to wait for an assessment of constitutionality.