Ardian Gjini: The Alliance is boycotting the continuation of the constitutive session and warns it will refer the matter to the Constitutional Court

The Alliance has decided not to take part in the continuation of the constitutive session of the Kosovo Assembly, scheduled for Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. The decision was announced by the party’s leader, Ardian Gjini, following a meeting of the party presidency, where recent political developments and issues concerning the Alliance’s organization and functioning were discussed, reports KosovaPress.

According to Gjini, the majority of lawmakers in the parliamentary group and members of the party presidency supported the decision not to take part in the session, arguing that the situation in the country constitutes a continuing violation of the Constitution.

“I must tell you that today the Alliance confirmed the will of the majority of the parliamentary group and the presidency not to take part tomorrow and not to legitimize the continuing and brutal violation of the Constitution of Kosovo by the party that emerged as the winner. In other words, Kosovo today is entirely outside the constitutional framework. We know that even after the 30 days we have been talking about for the certification of the election results, we ourselves stayed outside and tolerated a political interpretation of the Constitution by the winning party itself, giving itself another 30 days on top of the 30-day period that exists based on the Constitutional Court’s interpretation of the Constitution. We saw that the session was called twice in the final days before that 30-day period expired, while this latest summons, issued four days after even its own political interpretation had expired, we see as an insult to Kosovo, an insult to its citizens, an insult to our state, the Constitution and the lawmakers,” Gjini said.

He explained that the Alliance would have taken part in the session if the summons had been issued by Saturday, which, according to him, was when the second 30-day deadline expired.

The Alliance leader announced that, following the latest developments, the party would seek to have the matter referred to the Constitutional Court. He said they would coordinate this step with the other two opposition parties.

“What Kosovo is certainly facing is a referral to the Constitutional Court, which must be agreed upon with the other two parties that we see… still in opposition. We do not know where we will be tomorrow, because no party knows. But as of today, since they are in opposition, we must reach an agreement with them and refer the matter to the Constitutional Court, because today we have no other option but this course of action,” Gjini said.

Gjini said that during the meeting of the party presidency, the majority of members voted against taking part in Wednesday’s session, while only one member expressed a different view.

“None of the lawmakers was opposed; one member of the presidency expressed a different opinion. Only one of the members present. Exactly in accordance with the rules and properly on the matter. What will happen tomorrow… you see, my concern, based on what we understand and what we are seeing happening to Kosovo in this era of great deception, is that we believe it will not be constituted tomorrow either. Even if it is constituted tomorrow, it will be outside the constitutional framework; it is unconstitutional. But whether we believe it or not, the masquerades we have seen before should not confuse us: tomorrow, even in this unconstitutional situation, it will not be constituted,” he said.

The continuation of the constitutive session of the Kosovo Assembly will be held on Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. The session is expected to proceed with the constitution of the legislature, as well as the election of the speaker and deputy speakers of the Assembly. VV, PDK and LDK, the three major parliamentary parties, have confirmed that they will take part in the continuation of the constitutive session.