Sí president has invited parties for consultations over the appointment of local elections date

Although legal deadlines have come into effect, President Vjosa Osmani has not yet invited parties for consultations concerning the appointment of the local election date. According to election connoisseurs, this delay could affect the preparation of the elections, and according to them, the situation relates to unresolved developments on the political scene.

PPresident Vjosa Osmani has not yet invited political parties for consultations regarding the appointment of the local election date, despite the fact that the legal deadline for such a move has already begun.

The President's office has not provided any clarification on the issue.

Local elections are expected to be held between 17 August and 16 November this year, according to deadlines set out with the Law on Local Elections.

However, the lack of consultations with political subjects, according to KDI researcher Eugen Cakoli, is of concern over the preparation and functioning of the election process.

I believe among the reasons the president has not yet called the consultative meeting, although the same has still room to do so, relates to the political situation in terms of the constitution. It is a kind of public secret that political parties want, if there will be extraordinary elections, they will be held on the same day as local ones. So the risk of nonparticipating citizens is averted because of fatigue or perhaps the empathy that may arise because of the created political situation”, Calcoli has declared.

The recognition of constitutional law, Mazbul Baraliu, estimates that uniting parliamentary and local elections could be practical solutions if it does not emerge from the current political crisis.

That option, according to him, is a possible way out of a separate electoral process that risks low citizens' participation.

The process of local elections is a separate process that is envisioned with the Constitution and Law for local elections. It has constitutional and other legal deadlines. The president must do his job and the CEC also. But if there is political agreement on this political stalemate for political subjects to go to the polls, then local and parliamentary elections” can be held simultaneously, he said.

Political stalemate in Kosovo has entered the third month since the February 9th elections, while the new Assembly has not yet been established.

The ruling Vetevendosje Movement, the winner of the elections, has the right to propose the Speaker of the Parliament, but its candidate, Albula Haxhiu, has failed to get the necessary support in any of the six votes that have been held so far. /Periscope/