Hoti reacts to Kurt after inviting the opposition: Together with VV and GUXO deputies you have violated parliamentary democracy in Kosovo

Former Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti has reacted to Prime Minister Albin Kurti after he has invited opposition parties for co-ordination over the Assembly's agenda for the spring session. Hoti has said Kurti's behaviour, along with VV and GUXO deputies, to the Parliament institution and the opposition, has violated Kosovo's parliamentary democracy.

Hoti has written away that from monitoring the country that has been made, the findings are disturbing, including lack of transparency in decisions and law enforcement, anti-religious decisions, incapacitating quorum for investigative commissions, and no response on government questions to MPs.

Full response:

 Prime Minister Kurti is seeking co-ordination with the opposition for the Parliament's agenda for the spring session, but his behaviour along with the VV-Guxe group towards the institution of Parliament and the opposition during this mandate has violated parliamentary democracy in Kosovo.

The IKD's findings from monitoring the Kosovo Assembly are disturbing to democratic order: lack of transparency in decisions and law enforcement, constitutional and anti-legal decisions, failure to implement the labour regulation, the Assembly has been entrusted with the Government's accountability, the majority has been able to frame the quorum and have desired hearings and investigative commissions, the government has not responded to MPs' questions and has not participated in extraordinary sessions, many other findings that are presented in the following session.

Even when tear gas was poured, the Assembly has worked better, has been more transparent and more efficient, and has made constitutional and legal decisions.

This degradation of the work of the Parliament is the violation of democracy with broad consequences for all state camera and pillars of power in Kosovo.

Here are some of the report's leading findings:

1. A decision contrary to the Constitution and illegal.

2. The year 2023 started with eight unfinished plenary sessions from 2022, with a total of 54 agenda points, and closed with 30 unfinished points that were carried at 2024.

3. The parliamentary majority misused the mechanism of the extraordinary session for adopting regular agenda points.

4. The Assembly carried out works on three occasions without adopting the agenda.

5. The parliamentary majority unable to carry out the Constitutional Commission's mandate regarding supply and management with state reserves. The problems described by the commission were the commission's late constitutionalisation and the continued non-participation of parliamentary majority members.

6. MPs intervened in justice by making public statements and attacking law enforcement directors.

7. The Assembly has continued to face a deep lack of transparency by continuing to fail to publish material from parliamentary sessions. The Assembly has failed to publish the materials of the investigative commissions. No public meeting procession can be found on the official page of any of the investigative commissions.

8. The Assembly has failed to functioning electronic voting, making it impossible to convey the work of MPs, as well as not publish the vote by MPs immediately after the end of the plenary session.

9. The government has ignored the Parliamentary Questions, Investigation Commissions and parliamentary debates to give responsibility for its work and the governing programme.

10. Regarding dialogue, the prime minister has not kept the Parliament informed, as required with the Parliament resolution. The prime minister reported only at the request of opposition groups.

11. There was chronic lack of quorum, which in most cases was caused by MPs from the parliamentary majority.

Twelve. The parliamentary majority has been arrogant in terms of co-operation with the opposition in adopting the World Trade Division Law for 2024. None of the 54 amendments proposed in the annual budget put forward by opposition MPs have been voted.

13. The Assembly has violated the minimum standards of public consultation for wage cofficiency by adopting the bill with accelerated procedure within a day, which is contrary to the regulation where public legislative hearings are presented.

14. The Assembly has increased the use of bills by avoiding regular deadlines. The Assembly used avoidance procedures in 22 cases, five more cases than in 2022, and all proposals came from the Parliamentary Group of Vetevendosje.

15. During 2023, the prime minister did not stay in the hall. The prime minister and Minister of Internal Affairs did not attend the extraordinary session to discuss urgent financial support for the Kosovo Republic Police.