MPJD wants a mosque in New York to be converted into polling stations, law prohibits such a thing

The request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora to the CEC for new voting spaces abroad is seen as illegal in many respects.

Chief diplomat Donika Grovalla's letter to the CEC chairman, who holds such a request, even in restraint, is contrary to legislation in effect.

On the paper's annex, which was published yesterday, the space proposed by the ministry was mentioned in detail.

It provides photographs and other information on proposed spaces.

The contents of the paper annex show that the MPJD has proposed that a mosque be transformed in New York, U.S.A., as the poll center.

Such a proposal is contrary to the Electoral Rule for Founding and Management the Voting Centres.

Article 2, paragraph 4.3 of this regulation says that the location of polling stations should not be in religious objects.

Civil society has also responded to these proposals.

Eugen Cakoli from DnV, the coalition of nongovernmental organisations that monitors elections in Kosovo, has estimated that MPJD proposals are unreasonable.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora is continuing interventions in the election process, through illegal efforts to increase new voting space, though the legal deadline is for their appointment is closed three months ago. This is the tendency to create a divisive discour, prompting alleged clashes that the diaspora is being unable to vote. This last one is false, so it has to be rejected by our diaspora. Moreover, even if it was legal, some of the proposals for adding about 40 new spaces are also unreasonable, and some illegal”, he wrote in his account at “Facebook”

According to him, MPJD proposals for new spaces are unnecessary and not legal.

“, for example, proposed new spaces in: New York é at the Albanian Islamic Cultural Centre, which is actually glass, which is forbidden to be founded as a polling station; Iowa é in two additional spaces within the consulate object, though currently a single voter is registered there; Washington in a space just half an hour from the current centre, where only about 20 voters are currently registered, though they can apply up to a thousand sosh; Milan in one space, again only half an hour away from the current centre, where only about 50 voters are currently registered, though they can apply up to a thousand sosh; Stockholm in a space near the current centre, where only 79 voters are registered, though they can apply up to a thousand sosh; The Hague ) in the adjacent or annex areas of the current polling centre, which is only relatively large, with only 26 voters registered so far.”, it wrote.

What does the MPJD's letter to the CEC contain?

Journal National Yesterday, it published the contents of Foreign Affairs Minister Dinika Grovalla's letter to CEC chairman Kreshnik Radoniqi.

After the CEC has rejected the memorandum, which required competence in organising elections in the diaspora, the Minister of Gervala has taken another step.

Although the voter registration process outside Kosovo is moving with satisfactory steps, top diplomat Grovalla has written a letter to CEC chairman Kressnik Radonic.

In the letter provided by the Nacional newspaper, Gervala asks the CEC chairman to approve the scope of diplomatic missions and consular positions for organising the vote outside Kosovo.

“in those countries where our mission spaces are small to offer the possibility of voting for all citizens of that area with fair voting, it is necessary to urgently examine additional voting spaces abroad -- including the voting stations used by our diplomatic and consular representatives -- in line with the best standards”, says in the letter that the Gervailla started on November 27th.

Furthermore, at the Gervalla letter, the Central Election Commission for “several steps” that have violated “legal duties in relation to binding consultation and co-ordination of preparation and decision-making activities with the MPJD.

This letter by Minister Gervala is in full violation of the Kosovo Constitution (Nen 139) and the General Election Law.

The letter is also contrary to the decisions of the institutions of justice, since the case that this minister has taken to the CEC has been reviewed by the Electoral Panel for Anxiety and Parastance, the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court and the Court of Appeals.

All these institutions have enabled the CEC to decide August 29th, 2024.

This letter came in two weeks after the CEC has rejected the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora from an unprecedented memorandum with which, this government dictatorship, sought competence in organising elections in the diaspora.