New “All that happened in the Assembly yesterday

Two Serbian List deputies -- Miljana Nikolllic and Igor Sinheri -- did not get a vote in three rounds of voting each, after being put to the polls by Mayor Basha.

Neither the other MP from this community, Nenad Rassic, managed to be elected after receiving 56 votes for at least five short of the needed 61 votes.

Failure to elect an MP means that the Parliament no longer has any representatives from the non-Serb community to vote for vice president. Days earlier, the Assembly had chosen mayors and four deputy speakers.

Mayor Basha stressed that the constitutional session “is closed here”, though the settlement of the Parliament's work says the constitutional session ends with the election of the chairman and five deputy heads of the Parliament.

“We as the Parliament have no other option as to how to continue in terms of the deputy leader coming from the Serb minority, so, in this case, consider that we have also invented the fourth point of the agenda, I consider this constitutional session is closed”, Basha said.

He called a meeting of the Parliament leadership for Monday, September 1st.

The “on behalf of functionalisation of the Assembly and the materialisation of the election result on February 9th considers that the failure to elect one of the six members of the Assembly's leadership cannot be made an obstacle blocking the constitution's constitutionalisation”, Basha stressed.

LVV calls the constitution the others oppose

For Vetevendosje Movement, the winner of the February elections, the Kosovo Assembly “is constitutionalised”, but this stance has been rejected by other parliamentary parties and by legal experts.

Two LVV deputies -- Hekuran Murati and Albulen Haxhiu -- said after the session that the country should continue with the formation of the new government.

The situation is constitutional because we have exhausted all possibilities. All candidates have been attempted, and no one has received votes. In a situation like this, there's no place to be stuck. Let's get to the warrant situation, then we'll see. Continue with institutions, their creation. Do we have the numbers you will see at the session when the government is voted”, Murati said.

Haxhiu added that “is important to move ahead with the chairman, chairman and vice-presidents elected, we are interested in moving forward either with the new Government, or by election”.

The Democratic League of Kosovo stresses that the Assembly has not yet been constitutionalised.

“The constitution of the Republic, the regulation of the Assembly and the respective judicial judgments of the Constitutional Court are clear and unequivocal in terms of procedures and conditions of its constitutional dedication. Any attempt to interpret otherwise or bypass these fundamental provisions constitutes violations of constitutional order and violations of the democratic principles upon which our state is based”, the LDK's Facebook response said.

The LDK emphasises that the Assembly cannot function and make decisions without first meeting the process of constitutionalisation under law and regulation. The party has not voted either for Basha's election chairman, nor for elected deputy chairmans, including today deputy leader from the non-Serb community.

Chairman The PDK, Memli Krasniqi, said the Vetevendosje Movement is “allet with the Parliament and citizens”.

“does not depend on the will and interpretation of the Parliament's chairman whether or not the constitutional session ends, but this is clear according to Constitution and Work Adjust”, Krasniqi said. /Periscopi/

Basha called the chairmanship meeting for tomorrow. LDK's SDK go