Failure to implement justice reform is considered a government failure
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The Kosovo Institute for Justice says that the government has failed in terms of justice reform. IKD presented on Monday the report entitled "Failure of reform in justice", an activity that is being held in the framework of "Anti-Corruption Week 2024".
The researcher Gëzim Shala mentioned the absence of Veting as a failure in this process, which was a promise of the government.
"While at the beginning of the mandate, the law on the disciplinary responsibility of judges and prosecutors was changed in only one article and the other problems of this law were ignored, so the other problems were not opened. Meanwhile, now that the mandate is ending, the law on the disciplinary responsibility of judges and prosecutors has not yet been reformed, there is still no right of appeal if a competent authority issues a disciplinary complaint, and all these issues build the argument that reform in justice in the sense literally failed and this reform has not been achieved despite promises and great expectations that this reform will happen", he said.
At this roundtable, the coordinator of the Justice Department in the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Progress Gruda, criticized the Kurti government for not working on the justice reform.
The head of the AAK parliamentary group, Besnik Tahiri, said that Kosovo is facing the problem of corruption.
The Kosovo Institute for Justice has listed, among other things, as a failure of the government the failure to implement the reform in the Prosecutorial Council as well as the lack of an anti-corruption strategy.
The process of Vetting - the preparation of the legal basis, the Kosovar executive started in October 2021, where the concept document for Vetting in justice was approved.
Then, for this concept document, the opinion of the Venice Commission was also requested, which initially recommended the verification of high levels in the judiciary and the prosecution.
Then, constitutional amendments were drawn up by 40 members of the Assembly of Kosovo, which the Speaker of the Assembly, Glauk Konjufca, at the beginning of March last year, sent for evaluation to the Constitutional Court.
At the end of December 2023, the Constitutional Court made way for Vetting in the justice system.
The Law on the Prosecution Council of Kosovo, which was overturned by the Constitutional Court, was also confronted with the evaluation for constitutionality. He was re-sent to the Assembly of Kosovo and voted, then the opposition again sent him to the Constituent Assembly.
With the Constitutional Court, the opposition also confronted the Law on the Bureau for the Verification and Confiscation of Unjustifiable Assets, which currently, after the changes made by the Minister of Justice, which were foreseen in the Constitutional Act, has already been processed for voting in the Assembly of Kosovo.
