Four days before the expiration of the Constitutional Court’s deadline requiring MPs to constitute the Assembly, the President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, has requested the Court to impose a temporary measure to halt the expiry of this deadline, which ends on July 26. On Tuesday, President Osmani addressed the highest legal institution in the country, requesting clarifications on the legal consequences if MPs fail to constitute the ninth legislature by Saturday, reports KosovaPress.
In a press conference on Tuesday, President Osmani stated that the request sent to the Constitutional Court does not prejudge the outcome of the remaining four-day period for reaching a political agreement and constituting the Assembly. According to her, if an agreement is reached for the constituting of the Assembly, she will withdraw the request submitted to the Constitutional Court.
The Constitutional Court, through a ruling on June 26, obliged the MPs to constitute the Assembly of Kosovo by July 26. However, despite this, in ten attempts after the ruling, MPs have failed to elect the Assembly’s bodies.
Osmani emphasized that the country is in a real crisis, where five months after the elections, new institutions have yet to be formed.
Therefore, she added that she had a constitutional obligation to refer this case to the Constitutional Court, in order to examine the conflict of constitutional competencies created by the failure to constitute the Assembly of Kosovo.
According to her, if the Assembly is successfully constituted in the coming days, her request may be withdrawn, but she stressed that a substantive ruling by the Constitutional Court in this case could also clarify future cases.
Kosovo has not yet established its new institutions, even though parliamentary elections were held on February 9.
On June 26, the Constitutional Court obliged the MPs of the Assembly of Kosovo to constitute the ninth legislature by July 26, but did not specify the legal consequences if this does not occur.
Tomorrow will be the 51st attempt to constitute the Assembly. /KosovaPress/
