Today, for the 42nd time in a row, an attempt is being made to constitute the Assembly of Kosovo

Today, for the 42nd time in a row, an attempt is being made to constitute the Assembly of Kosovo.

Members of the Kosovo Assembly will meet again today at 11:00 for the 42nd time in a row in an attempt to constitute the ninth legislature to emerge from the February 9 elections.

Even after the verdict issued by the Constitutional Court, the same scenario continued in the Assembly as political parties are reading the verdict differently.

The Vetëvendosje Movement is insisting that the secret ballot – through which it aims to ensure that their candidate for parliamentary speaker, Albulena Haxhiu, who failed to receive the necessary votes in an open vote – is not unconstitutional.

For other parties, this is unacceptable as they say that the recent Constitutional Court ruling makes it clear that the Speaker of Parliament should be elected according to current parliamentary practices – by open voting.

The country’s president, Vjosa Osmani, also spoke out on this issue yesterday, saying that she agrees with her legal team that secret voting is allowed, but that there must be consensus among MPs for this.

“The finding of my legal team, with which I agree, is that if the judgment is read in its entirety, a secret ballot is not ruled out as a possibility, however, it requires the consensus of the deputies. This means that there must be a vote, there must be a decision of the session, before such a method is used,” she said, adding that the deputies “must be asked.”

In recent days, Osmani also called separate meetings with political party leaders in an attempt to overcome the institutional crisis, however, they yielded no results.

Meanwhile, PDK and LDK have sent two more requests to the Constitutional Court regarding the new blockade in the Assembly. Both are requesting that Avni Dehari’s actions be declared unconstitutional and that the Assembly be constituted according to the agenda.

The LDK addressed the Constitutional Court yesterday for clarification and said it believes that the recent extensions of the constitutive session were made “in complete contradiction” with the Constitution of Kosovo and the findings of the Constitutional Court’s judgment from June 26.

A day earlier, after the 41st failure, PDK asked the Constitutional Court to evaluate the “violations” in the constitutive session.

Both of these parties accuse Dehari of arbitrarily changing the agenda on instructions from his party, the Vetëvendosje Movement.express/