Kryeziu: President must intervene after continuing institutional blockade

Following the eleven-month failure to constitute Kosovo's Parliament, constitutional law professor Kadri Kryeziu stressed the need for intervention by the country's president, Vjosa Osmani.

According to Kryeziu, it is time for the president to take on a more active role by inviting political parties to a process of harmonising positions to enable the formation of new institutions, follows Periscope.

This could continue so far to the end, but it is a situation in which Kosovo's president is tasked with helping establish institutions. It should call on political parties to harmonise positions and establish the government. At the moment, we are in an institutional vacuum, because neither Parliament nor government is functioning, and the latter is in office. In the constitutional aspect, the president is tasked with calling political subjects for harmonisation of positions and government creation. But it has yet another possibility: Article 113, Article 3 and 5 of the Constitution gives it the right to apply to the Constitutional Court to clarify whether the Constitution is being violated during these procedures. This situation has lasted a long time, has become a sort of absurdity and a state of depression for society and voters. The president should be on duty level and engage to the maximum. When we drafted the Constitution, we have set a five-year deadline for the presidential mandate, given that such situations could occur. It has the deadline, legitimacy and legality to intervene because it is representative of the unity of the people and the factor of national unity,” He told the KP.