Five Months Without Active Framework

For the last time, Kosovo's Assembly met at the plenary session and made decisions in early December 2024. Until last lawmakers stopped working two months before the elections, three months after, young people are failing to register the ninth legislature. The rise in electricity tariffs resulting in increased prices, to the additions of police and soldiers, were cited among the problems this institution would have to deal with during this period of dysfunction.

Exactly 150 days ago date the last decisions Kosovo's Assembly issued through the plenary session.

Even though the elections were held on February 9th, lawmakers from the eighth legislature gathered for work only until December 5th, 2024, leaving without considering and passing about ten international agreements and a host of laws.

A month before the campaign, a month of campaigning -- and nearly three after the elections -- without including the solemn joint meeting with Albania's decision on December 20th -- is the only result of MPs in the new legislature, still uncontested.

Acknowledging the situation with the virtually dysfunctional Assembly for five months, AAK Chairman Ramush Haradinaj listed some consequences, Dukaj writes.

“has also been delayed very much. We lost at least a month because in 30 days the result had to be certified. Now as you can see, we're wasting time. These have consequences, such consequences leave indoor life. Energy supply caused price expensive. For example, who no longer addresses concrete subjects what is happening to the country? One day I heard in the news that the additionals of soldiers” have not yet been paid, Ramush Haradinaj, chairman of the AAK, has said.

Passy stressed that Kosovo is in political trouble, in relation to the new legislature's constitutionalisation, LDK deputy Armend Zemaj said the Macedonia's dysfunction dates back to the latest regular session.

You remember those moves, the March 2024 or February, and the tendency to go to early elections, the Assembly has not been functional. It was only functional when a host of laws were assembled to pass or groups of different interests, boards, such as the tendency to apprehend independent boards and agencies. The Assembly has been dysfunctional throughout 2024 and you are witnesses to its time”, said Armendi Zemaj, LDK deputy.

As MPs released from the February 9th elections, so far, have failed 10 times to constitutionalise the ninth legislature, even in the past the disruptions and continuation were frequent practice.

Given the measurements of the Kosovo Democratic Institute, about 35% of sessions in the eighth legislature resulted in continued ʹ and in all cases the disruptions were due to lack of quorum. /Periscopi/