President Vjosa Osmani has said that there was unnecessary and illegal pressure from the Prosecutorial Council of Kosovo to make a decision regarding the decree of the chief state prosecutor, although according to her, she was informed of the reason why the decision was not made until October 17 final.
In an interview for KTV's "Tempus", Osmani said that for this decision he received threats from people within the prosecution system.
"It was unprecedented to constantly exert such pressure, knowing that the only thing the Presidency has done is to respect the principles of legal certainty and the rule of law, because if I intervened while the cases were being examined, this would to deny fundamental rights to the opposing candidates and would violate these rights. It was unnecessary and illegal pressure because they knew the reason why they waited until the final decision was taken by the Constitutional Court", she said.
Osmani added that the reason why he did not make public the details of these threats is because he chose to protect the people who signaled the information, as he added that the threats were made by individuals within the prosecution system.
"You cannot come to the president's desk with hundreds of violations and then think that you can achieve your goals by threatening the head of state. The threats have come from people who are within the prosecutorial system, for the moment it is relevant that everyone understands that such an approach is futile", she said.
Osmani further said that what is required from the Presidency is that all those involved in the justice system must be independent from politics, crime and business, but not from the law and the Constitution.
"The only thing that the President of the Republic asks from everyone who is in the justice system is to respect the law, the Constitution, they must be independent from politics, crime and businesses, but not independent from the law and the Constitution. The times when threats had any function are over," she said.