Kurt doesn't quit, Chocolate: Article 26 defines the need to be formally given

Eugen Cakoli from the Kosovo Democratic Institute (KDI) has spoken of Prime Minister Albin Kurti's decision not to respect the new Law on Government, which obliges government members who have won votes for MPs to resign before the Certificate of election results, as it is considered that the MP's mandate begins at the moment the elections are certified.

He says that since Kurti is stating himself that the government's mandate has ended on March 23rd, then he had to resign yesterday.

Chocolate says Article 26 of the new Law says that members of the government in office - in the status they have today - must resign.

“In terms of the resignation itself is Article 28, 29, 30, 31 about the mandate and the government, the mandate and the resignation, ahead of them is Article 26 which says that members of the government in office, in the status they have today, ministers and the prime minister, must resign. Since Kurt is claiming that the mandate ended on March 23rd, he had to resign yesterday, not to leave this issue under his discretion for transitional government. Because the government as such, the prime minister himself and other deputies who have had ministerial positions, respectively, have incompatibility to the mandate if they go to the Assembly holding the two mandates, even that of the minister. So it has been in discussions about the law on the government, to add this provision, to ask government members to resign, not to complete their mandate, because the provision speaks of the government in office or resignations, that the same should effectively and formally resign, not leaving it alone under the regular completion of the” mandate, Calcoli has said of Express broadcasting. Periscope.

He has said that unfortunately it has no legal consequences since it is only an administrative issue.

This matter is unfortunately administrative, which produces legal consequences, but that during the verification of mandates in the Parliament, when the oath is taken, I believe that the relevant Commission under control, should verify this aspect as well and see if they have the same incompatibility of the mandate, as I believe is the case in this” situation, it has added further.

Kurti, in a reaction of the first few minutes, has said that under the Government Law, the Government's Mandati has ended on March 23rd, and that there is no need for formal act of resignation.

“in line with Article 29, par. One, below. 1,4 of Law No. 08/L-17 for the Government of the Republic of Kosovo -- the mandate of each member of the government -- also concluded on March 23rd, along with the end of the government's mandate, without the need for the additional and formal act of resignations from their respective posts according to the submargraphy 1.3 of the same paragraph and Article” -- wrote Kurti.