“CSL sues government to annul IKAP Director's appointment

The Centre for Strategic Judicial Cases (CSL) has handed over to the Constitutional Court in Pristina ʹ the Department for Administration Affairs indictment for cancelling the government's decision in office to appoint Kosovo Institute for Public Administration General Director (IKAP) and request to suspend its implementation until the case's merit is established.

According to the CSL, the government's decision in office is conveyed with constitutional violations and lawlessness, both procedural and material, which are said to have violated the labour rights of the plaintiff for which the CSL also requires cancellation on the judicial path of this decision.

The one of the biggest violations identified and argued in the indictment is that the decision to appoint the IKAP General Director has been taken according to the proposal and approval by the incumbent prime minister and ministers, who simultaneously hold the MP/ess position. This issue that has begun to become illegal practice has already witnessed with the Act of Supreme Court of Kosovo, P. A.n. 092025, of July 7, 2025, which, among other things, highlights the incompatibility and violation of principles embedded in the country's Constitution regarding the division of powers and the ban on dual exercise of”, says CSL.

Other legal violations identified by the CSL, which they say make the verdict filed by indictment illegal, are:

-The appointment doesn't contain the reasoning as to selecting the candidate named in relation to the three winning candidates, violating the Law's binding provisions for public officials as a material law;

-The independence does not contain the mandatory elements of the administrative act because it lacks the same part of the reasoning and judicial advice, legal requirements set out in the Law for General Administrative Procedure, as a procedure law;

-The trial has been taken by ignoring overall meritocracy and fair gender representation because it has been given priority to the second candidate and is not of the under-represented gender by violating rules defined in the Law for Public Officials and the Law on Gender Equality.

The CSL has demanded from the Court that, after judicial review of the case, issue the indictment, by which it approves the entire indictment, annuls the government's decision in office for the appointment of the General Director at IKAP because of the constitutional and the highest-indeposed legal violations.

“due to the high level of consequences that could cause for public interest, the suspension of the government's controversial decision” has been proposed, told the Centre for Strategic Case (CSL)./Periscopi/