Lawyer Tomë Gashi has criticized the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) for its demands to amend the Law on the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, describing this as an attempt to "wash away the sins" of the 2015 vote. He added that these changes have no legal effect on the work of the Specialist Chamber.
Gashi said that recent public statements and efforts to change the law are related, according to him, to the vote that enabled the establishment of the Special Court.
"It's very simple. In my opinion, the PDK simply wants to forget its sins of voting for the Special Court in 2015 and everything now, the public statements being made, the attempt to change the law, has this purpose," Gashi said on KTV's "Konfront."
He said that the situation is also being used in the context of political developments in the country, mentioning the possibility of new elections if the election of the president is not achieved.
"This situation is being misused a little because we know that there is no deadline and it seems that we are likely to go to repeat elections and the parties will then blame each other," he said.
According to Gashi, the PDK is trying to present the issue of changing the law as a clash with other parties, especially the Vetëvendosje Movement.
"The PDK is playing a very dangerous game, claiming that we want to change the Law on the Special Court, 11 years after they voted for it themselves, and supposedly other parties, including the Vetëvendosje Movement, are targeting them, they don't want to," said Gashi.
He argued that, in the current political circumstances, the election of the president is a more urgent matter, as failure to elect him within the constitutional deadline could lead the country to early elections.
"We are less than seven days away from the deadline for electing the president, and this is a more urgent request than the PDK's demands," the lawyer declared.
Gashi added that new elections would bring a prolonged period of institutional uncertainty.
"If we don't elect a president, we go to early elections. If we go to elections, for several months we won't even have a constituted Assembly and an incumbent Government, let alone a president," he said.
In the end, Gashi assessed that the proposed changes would not have a legal effect on the work of the Specialist Chambers.
"These changes have no legal effect on the work of the Special Investigation Unit," said Gashi.
