EU remarks ignored: Parliament adopts Bill for Independent Media Council

The Kosovo Assembly managed to adopt the Bill for Independent Media Council. In favor of this bill, 59 MPs voted, while 2 others abstained.

The MPs who abstained were Dimal Basha and Eman Canthman.

Chief Parliamentary Glauk Konjufca said that “did not pass without the sometimes the agreement which is partly”

There are issues that are not universally addressed by EU legislation, so states regulate them according to their separate ways, and when something falls it is not partly that bi in opposition then said. It turns out some of it is in conflict with EU legislation. That if they are partly at odds they would not have been deputies to vote”, Konjufca said.

And the chairman of the Parliamentary Commission for Media, Valon Ramadani, called on MPs to vote on him.

The Parliamentary Commission for Media has been examining this bill for six months. We have had numerous comments from local organisations, civil society, the OSCE, the EU and the Council of Europe. We have considered these comments, and there are 93 amendments that change this Bill in composition as well. I invite you to vote”, Ramadani said.

The Kosovo Assembly has also voted in second reading as well as the Bill on Change and Fulfilling Law for the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council.

This bill was voted 61 votes for no one against it and no abstention.

Opposition parties were not present in the hall when these two bills were voted. The same today demanded that these two bills, as well as that for civil servants, be removed from the agenda because they have unconstitutional content.

But this demand by opposition parties did not pass.