Chocolate: Serbian List Reservation Decision to Fall Down by PZAP

Eugen Cakoli of the Kosovo Democratic Institute has clarified that there is a 2019 precedent in Kosovo when PZAP and the Supreme Court had confirmed that the CEC has no legal authority to add criteria beyond the formal prescribed by law.

So according to him, it is quite clear that PZAP, or the Supreme Court, will bring down this decision, while suggesting that if there are real concerns about the activity of the Serbian List, there are clear legal procedures for unregistering a political party.

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The Serbian List's non-servation decision, no doubt it will collapse. PZAP or Supreme Court. However, we have similar precedents from 2019, when PZAP and the Supreme Court had confirmed that the CEC does not have legal authority to add to the criteria beyond the formal prescribed by law the criteria Serbian List nominally meets, since the statute and its programme do not contain anti-unconstitutional references.

The only result that today's decision-making will produce is our performance as a party where political interference in elections, where certain legal criteria are ignored, or where parties of non-most communities “are prevented from competing in elections.

If there are real concerns about the activity of the Serbian List, there are clear legal procedures for unregistering a political party. But these procedures require regular trials and processes, not ad-hoc decisions like this for refusing certificates.

The legal system does not function in words of discretion, but in procedures and regulations. So even in this case, it's nothing important who's a party.