The European Union Ambassador to Kosovo, Aivo Orav, said on Wednesday that political interference in the judiciary is unacceptable, after the acting Government of Kosovo criticized a Supreme Court decision regarding an administrative instruction on fiscal devices.
In an article in X, Orav said that the heads of EU missions in Kosovo have discussed the situation following the Supreme Court's decision.
"Attacks against individual judges and political interference in the judiciary are unacceptable," he wrote.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court declared illegal and annulled an administrative instruction issued by the acting Minister of Finance, Hekuran Murati, stating that a minister certified as an MP cannot exercise executive functions.
A few hours later, the acting Government described as "unfounded in law" and "arbitrary" the Supreme Court's decision to repeal the administrative instruction on the use of electronic fiscal devices, fiscal systems and electronic fiscal software.
Even the acting minister, Murati, opposed this decision in a status on his Facebook account on Tuesday, calling it "absurd" and harshly criticizing the Supreme Court judges by name.
The administrative instruction was published in the official gazette on April 16, a day after it was signed by the acting minister, who is also sworn in as a member of the new legislature following the February elections.
Regarding the Supreme Court's decision that a serving minister cannot issue bylaws and administrative instructions after becoming a member of the Assembly, the incumbent Government said that the Constitutional Court "allows such a thing," as the Assembly has not yet been constituted after the February 9 elections.
The Supreme Court responded to the incumbent Government, describing its reaction as tendentious and an unacceptable interference in the independence of the judiciary.
Eugen Cakolli from the Democratic Institute of Kosovo said that the court "definitively clarified" that ministers, already with mandates as MPs, cannot continue to exercise executive functions after the certification of the results by the Central Election Commission.
The CEC certified the results of the February elections on March 27.
The Law on Government specifies that a government in office cannot exceed its limited authorizations and clearly prohibits taking major decisions./ REL (A2 Televizion)
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