The action of the chairman of the constitutive session, Avni Dehari, to interrupt the Wednesday session is considered arbitrary and illegal. The latter said that there are no conditions for holding it, after the deputy of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Ganimete Musliu took the microphone away from Dehari. Monitors of the assembly's work say that the conditions for interrupting the session were not met in Tuesday's session. Researcher from the Kosovo Institute for Justice, Naim Jakaj, tells KosovaPress that the leadership of the constitutive session by the deputy of the LVV, Avni Dehari, has political influence.
"It was an arbitrary interruption of the continuation of the 51st session of the Assembly of Kosovo, of the constitution of the constitutive session. What we saw was therefore an arbitrary interruption of the Assembly, because according to the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, there are listed what are the measures in case a deputy of the Assembly of Kosovo interrupts the session or causes problems that conflict with the parliamentary rules. In this case, the deputy Ms. Ganimete Musliu should also have been initially warned and then asked to leave the session of that deputy. If she did not leave either, then security would have to be called to remove her from the plenary session."
At Tuesday's session, the 51st attempt to constitute the Assembly, Jakaj says that there was no chaos that prevented the continuation of the proceedings.
"These preliminary conditions were not met in order to proceed to the interruption of the session. And then, in case chaos is requested or created in the session, the oldest MP, in this case the chairman of the session Avni Dehari, requests that the session be interrupted and another break be taken, and then, even if the chaos in the session is not stopped, which today was not chaos in the plenary session, then the session is interrupted and another day is set, which is announced by the chairman of the constitutive session himself. Today, the conditions have not been met in order to interrupt the session and set a continuation after two days," Jakaj adds to KosovaPress.
Vullnet Bugaqku from the Kosovo Democratic Institute (KDI) also emphasizes that the way in which the session is being “administered is outside any procedural norm”.
“The agenda in the constitutive session is predetermined by the meeting of the old Speaker of the Assembly and other parliamentary groups and as a result [Avni Dehari] should only implement the points of the agenda, as they have been determined. However, he did not do this today and logically and legally we can consider that such a closure of the session is illegal and arbitrary”, he said.
Based on the Constitutional Court's ruling, MPs have until July 26 to constitute the Assembly. The interruption of today's session, as Bugaqku added, is meaningless.
"Today was an opportunity for all these deputies, but especially the largest parliamentary group because it has the main responsibility to find a suitable candidacy or make a political compromise to elect the Speaker of the Assembly. The Speaker, it seems, completely unilaterally and even instinctively decided to close the constitutive session, naturally this diminishes the chances of constituting the Assembly. Because the 30-day deadline is very close and I believe that we have at least one session left that will decide whether the Assembly will be constituted or not."
President Vjosa Osmani has requested the Constitutional Court to impose a temporary measure on the expiration of the deadline for the constitution of the Assembly, which will expire on July 26. The country's first female president, Osmani, addressed the highest legal institution in the country on Tuesday, seeking clarification on the legal consequences if MPs do not constitute the ninth legislature by Saturday. (A2 Televizion)
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