20 minutes agoWho and how was voted into the CEC meeting for April 21st to set the date for elections in the north?
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)The Commission's Central Election Commission set April 21st as the date for voting for the departure of mayors in the north, writes Periscopi. But this CEC decision is being seen as unconstitutional and legal, since PDK officials in the CEC but also recognition of the process, they are saying that the date can only be set by Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani. [...]
But this CEC decision is being seen as unconstitutional and legal, since PDK officials in the CEC but also recognition of the process, they are saying that the date can only be set by Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani.
The Periscope newspaper learns that in addition to the two members of the Kosovo Demoractic Party that have committed, others, members of political parties in the Commission have voted FOR including the Democratic League of Kosovo, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo and other parties.
PDK has abstained by two votes, LDK and AAK have voted FOR, representatives of the Turkish minority in the CEC as well FOR and representative of Elbertk Krasniqi's CEC party has voted FOR.
Meanwhile, representatives of the Serbian List have not attended the Central Election Commission meeting, where April 21st, evacuation was appointed to the current mayors.
Arian Elshani, a member of the Kosovo Demoractic Party in the Central Election Commission, has strongly rejected the CEC's decision to announce the date of the April 21st elections for four municipalities in northern Kosovo, writes Periscopi.
Elshani at a proposal for Periscope has said that what happened today is unacceptable.
The previous “decision is illegal and unconstitutional. The CEC today has become an MAPL agency and Kosovo Presidential Office Vjosa Osmani”, said this CEC member
Meanwhile, the chief of the European Union Office in Kosovo, Thomas Szunyog, has praised the Central Election Commission's decision (KQZ) on April 21st to hold the vote for the dismissal of mayors in four municipalities in the north, northern Mitrovica, Leposaviq, Zvecan and Zubin-Potok.
Ambassador Szunyog has written that it is essential that the CEC make the necessary preparations to ensure a calm process to create conditions for free and fair vote.
The current “is essential for the CEC to make the necessary preparations to ensure a calm process and to create conditions for free and fair vote”, it wrote on the X platform.
