Former President of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo, Enver Hasani, stated that it is up to politics, within constitutional norms and principles, to find a way out of the political deadlock.
Hasani said he does not exclude the possibility that the Assembly may fail to be constituted within 30 days, which could lead the Constitutional Court “to be set in motion again, in accordance with the constitutional and legal procedures.”
According to Hasani, who is a professor of Law and International Relations at the University of Prishtina, the Constitutional Court’s latest ruling on the constitution of the Assembly is clear. However, he added that, based on the behavior of the Vetëvendosje Movement, the 30-day deadline will likely not be respected.
“If we judge by the behavior of Mr. [Vetëvendosje leader, Albin] Kurti, the situation is moving towards the non-constitution of the Assembly of Kosovo. He is applying the latest ruling of the Constitutional Court with the intention of obstructing the constitution or inauguration of the Assembly of Kosovo,” Hasani told RFE/RL.
Hasani assessed that the only shortcoming of the Court’s ruling is that it does not specify the constitutional sanction. As a possible sanction, he mentioned the decertification of the chair of the constitutive session, Avni Dehari. Additionally, once violations of Constitutional Court rulings are identified, Hasani argued, those individuals must be “eliminated from leadership positions—in this case, from the constitution process itself.”
