A working group at the Ministry of Justice will meet early next week to discuss the Civil Code before it is resubmitted to the Assembly for consideration. Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti announced this during today’s parliamentary session.
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The announcement came during a debate with PDK MP Eman Rrahmani, who opposed the government’s intention to pass the Civil Code, the Law on Assisted Fertilization and the Law on Civil Status. According to Rrahmani, these initiatives affect traditional family values.
Explaining the reasons for bringing back the Civil Code, Kurti said the country needs a lasting reform of civil law. He listed property, contracts, family relationships and inheritance as areas through which citizens build their individual lives.
According to the prime minister, the Civil Code brings these relationships together within a harmonized framework, with provisions that complement one another and clarify rights and responsibilities. Kurti stressed that its drafting must be guided by an awareness that it will also serve future generations, singling out property as an issue that illustrates this need.
He went on to defend the need for legal regulation of assisted fertilization and institutional support for people facing difficulties on their path to parenthood.
Kurti described the desire to become a parent as one of the deepest expressions of human hope, rooted in love and care for another life. He said the difficulties many people experience in becoming parents call for understanding and a thoughtful response from the state.
Responding to the prime minister, Rrahmani insisted that his objections concerned specific provisions: allowing women to become mothers without a husband through assisted fertilization, and changing gender in civil status documents.
The MP said such wording could be used during an election campaign, but that specific issues should be discussed accurately in the Assembly. He added that it was clear which aspects of the Civil Code had been opposed and accused the government of bringing forward the law on changing gender on New Year’s Eve.
In response, Kurti suggested that Rrahmani read and examine the entire text rather than focus on just two articles. The prime minister said that, if he was not mistaken, the Civil Code contains 997 pages and 1,630 articles.
He warned that focusing on only two articles risked becoming an obsession, clarifying that this was simply advice and that not everyone had to agree on everything. In closing, Kurti reiterated that the working group at the Ministry of Justice would discuss all the issues early next week and then bring the Civil Code back to the Assembly.
