6 minutes agoKDI: Prime Minister and Ministers in charge officially resign to unblock the constitution
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)The Kosovo Democratic Institute (KDI) expresses deep concern over the country's repeated failure to approve the Commission's report on Mandas Verification, one of the necessary steps towards the constitution's constitutionalisation and the beginning of the new legislature's work, transfers Periscopi. According to KDI, the formal resignation of the prime minister and ministers in [...]
According to the KDI, the formal resignation of the prime minister and ministers in office, who have been elected deputies, in addition to the clear violation of the principles of power sharing, is unable to vote the report, directly violating the institutional functionality of the Parliament. KDI recalls that under legislation in effect, executive members should resign, even before the certificate of election results. The constitutional provisions also prohibit the exercise of functions incompatible with the MP's mandate. Disobedience of these provisions is not a technical issue or procedural interpretations, but a clear violation of norms regulating the exercise of public functions in a democratic order.
Also, KDI estimates that today's closure of the constitutional session by its chairman, MP Avni Dehari, constitutes violations of the regulation and parliamentary practice, as it was interrupted without voting being conducted for the report by the Acting Commission and without consuming any of the points of the agenda. Such an action, bypassing the Parliament's formal decision-free procedures, seriously violates the legitimacy of the process and adds further uncertainty about the operation of the session. The fact that the Assembly is failing to verify the mandates due to this stalemate created by lack of formal resignations indicates a lack of will to abide by the law and allow normal functioning of institutions. This action, or rather inaction, on the part of members of the government in office, is turning a standard and simple procedure into an unnecessary political and institutional crisis.
KDI calls on the incumbent prime minister and ministers who have won mandates as MPs to respect the clear legal obligation for formal resignations from executive positions, so that the completion of the Assembly's constitutional session can be made possible. Institutions cannot be formed by bypassing the law. Any further stallion is without political responsibility and violates citizens' trust in the democratic process.
