Krasniqi: Political crisis is deliberate, attacks on Constitutional are dangerous

Seven months passed since the February 9th elections were held, but to this day, the Assembly was not established either, nor was the new government formed.

Albert Krasniqi from Democracy Plus estimates that Kosovo is facing a deliberate political crisis, not a judicial blockade as in the past.

He in an interview for Online Economy said the lack of will to create parliamentary majority is keeping the country in institutional charge.

The “is extremely deep crisis and this is because it's deliberate and it's not a blockade, which has judicial uncertainty, as they have been in 2014, when parties have rightly had different attitudes. But now it's all clear and the crises that are being produced are completely political and what's making it even worse are the attacks, which are being done against the Constitutional Court and pressure also from the heads of state to make decisions, that fit their political calculations”.

The “juha, which is being used by declaring them as traitors if the decision-making does not go according to their demands, is more intended to damage the reputation of the Constitutional Court and their decisions not to be ignored than it is about the Serb community and the right or the right of the Serbian List to propose the deputy head of the Parliament, and everything is being packed in terms of patriotism, but this is really only a mass used to attack the Constitutional Court<1> Krasniqi said.

He estimated that this pressure and denigration language against the Constitutional Court are jeopardising the functioning of constitutional order in the country.

“I am more seeing it as a refusal by the Vetevendosje Movement to recognise the outcome of the February elections, and it is intended that time will rise on February 14th in 2021, where the Vetevendosje Movement had the majority of votes. Having lost this majority, their tendency is to constantly block and promote the constitutionalisation of new institutions, calculating that they can gain any increase to trigger elections which would enable them to stay in power”, he said.

Krasniqi added that if no party has the majority to establish the government, then the country must go to new elections as the way out of the political stalemate.

If none of the political parties have the majority, then the elections are a tool to be used to get out of this political crisis. But with these interpretations, which are being made and trends to block, we can get from the crisis into the crisis and not get through it, unless there is a will to create a parliamentary majority among the existing” parties, Krasniqi said.