The chairman of the constitutive session of the Kosovo Assembly and a member of parliament from the Vetëvendosje Movement, Avni Dehari, has called for dialogue and agreement between parties, as according to him, continuing the constitutive session without an agreement could further tense the situation and even lead to physical conflict within the Assembly.
"What happened three days ago in the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo is exactly what I warned about. Any attempt to continue the session without a political agreement only further tenses the situation and increases the risk of clashes, even physical conflict, inside the Assembly hall," Dehari wrote on Facebook.
He welcomed the invitations for meetings from the leader of Vetëvendosje, Albin Kurti, and the acting president, Albulena Haxhiu, to political parties for consultations. The invitation has so far been rejected by the PDK and the Alliance.
According to Dehari, Kosovo needs political responsibility and dialogue to reach an agreement that would unblock the institutional situation and guarantee the sustainable functioning of institutions.
"As Chairman of the constitutive session, I call on all political parties to sit together, take their due responsibility, and find a political solution that paves the way for the constitution of the Assembly, the formation of the Government, and an agreement on a consensual President," he said.
Dehari stressed that the constitution of the Assembly and the formation of the Government without a prior agreement for the president would lead to early elections, a scenario which he said must be avoided.
"The constitution of the Assembly and the formation of the Government without a prior agreement for the President means early elections, something we must avoid," Dehari declared.
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He recalled that the citizens of Kosovo have been called to elections three times over the last two years, calling on political representatives to now find an agreement.
"The people have spoken. Now it is our turn, as political representatives, to find agreement and give the country functional and stable institutions," Dehari concluded.
Last Friday was the deadline defined by the Constitutional Court, within which the eleventh legislature had to be constituted. The deputies took the oath, but at the point on the agenda to propose the speaker of parliament, Kurti took the floor and justified his refusal to make the proposal by the fact that there is still no agreement with the political parties on the president. And, according to him, the Assembly cannot be constituted without this agreement, since otherwise the 60-day deadline for electing the president would also be consumed and new early elections would be imposed.
