The historic decision of the Kosovo Constitutional Court, did it end the Ahtisaari Republic?

The decision of the Prosecutorial Council is not simply an act of refusing to return several ethnic Serb prosecutors to Kosovo institutions, who, de facto but not de jure, were a "Trojan horse", who took care, online, of the rights, but also the obligations of Serbian citizens (otherwise, the most super-privileged, not only in the region, but also in Europe, and perhaps even in the world!?), but it is also an emancipatory and mature phase to pass the test from an "Ahtisaari-style negotiating citizenship" to a "normative citizenship", where the laws and Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo must apply equally to all its citizens. 

In fact, this decision also marks the beginning of the definitive "divorce" from the consequences that could have followed if a contrary decision had been made.

This rational and competent decision of the Prosecutorial Council also proves an extremely important fact, which has to do with the independence of constitutional judgments and interpretations, especially when it comes to blocking and functioning of state institutions from boycotts of any political nature. However, this decision must also be said that the entire architecture of caress and flirtation with the Serbian state, which was installed by the "yes-men" conditioned by the post-war power-holding, shifted the non-existent ethnic conflict to the proper tracks of law and order.

From now on, both the 3% of local Serbs, as well as the state of Serbia, must understand that the Ahtisaari Republic is coming to an end and that the "Third Republic", which will treat all citizens of this country the same as any other European country, is slowly and surely shifting the non-existent conflict from the terrain of ethnicity to the terrain of institutional order and functional law.

If we conduct a sociological analysis through some hypotheses, we will better understand this decision of the Prosecutorial Council.

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The first hypothesis has to do with the influence or the beginning of the expansion of possibilities for a new and completely state sovereignty (so to speak), which has to do mainly with overcoming the previous institutional logic, which made compromises and negotiated on any minor topic or issue when the interests of local Serbs (read: in short, of Serbia!) in the Republic of Kosovo were at stake. With this decision, the state of the Republic is delegating the clear message that the whims and entrances and exits from the institutions of this country cannot in any way be used as instruments of political pressure. However, in our judgment, the main dilemma still remains, especially when it comes to affirming the full competencies and autonomy of these institutions, which are slowly but surely transforming conditional sovereignty into full sovereignty. We say this also because, on this journey, it is necessary to see, but also to listen to, both friends, as well as allies and stakeholders of conditional sovereignty. If they are in favor, this means that Kosovo is transforming from a “centaur” state (see the meaning in Greek mythology) into a typical Western European state, which respects both the norms and verified standards that they also apply in their countries. However, if they oppose this decision of the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council, this shows that some of them are very interested in Kosovo never becoming a normal state and a democratic country. I think that, when we are on this dilemmatic issue, our diplomacy should be much more aggressive, in a positive sense, to skillfully advocate, through a “flying diplomacy”, the entire, so to speak, “project” of installing Kosovo’s state sovereignty.
Meanwhile, the other hypothesis, which I am distinguishing as the hypothesis of the delegitimization of the boycott as a political strategy, has to do with the fact that Serbian judges, through the organized and politically motivated boycott, which they exercised with directives from Serbia (alias Aleksandar Vučić) in 2022, best prove that the institutional boycott strategy was a strategy of total failure on the part of Serbia. This means that the boycott, as a means of political pressure by Serbia, enriched by the caresses of Brussels and, more recently, Washington, which will be carried out through the Strategic Dialogue, has failed; while active participation, through the standards of meritocracy and professional preparation, which would be verified through competition, as is the case throughout Europe, is the only and legitimate way to regain these key positions for the functioning of the legal state of the Republic of Kosovo.

Another hypothesis concerns the process of transformation of state-ethnic minority relations. The decision of the Prosecutorial Council should mark the end of the constitutional type and model, where the institutional integration of minorities would depend mainly on the dynamics of political dialogue with Belgrade.
However, if we analyze this entire “odyssey” from the Weberian perspective of bureaucratic rationalization, we understand that the decision in question, when it comes to topics related to administrative logic, should not actually function on the basis of political loyalty, but exclusively on the parameters, rules and standards of the laws and the Constitution of that country. In other words, the rejection made by the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council (KPK) had as its sole aim and imperative the protection and increase of maximum credibility in the system, then the increase of legal certainty and, formally, the preservation of the sovereignty of the Republic. This decision paves the way and opportunities for the affirmation of new Serbian judges, who do not have the burdens and mortgages of the past, but who accept the new reality created for almost three decades in the Republic of Kosovo. I hope that this is exactly what happens; otherwise, Kosovo has no more time to waste with the conditional and truncated sovereignty it has had until now...