Highest Court Declares President’s Case Inadmissible

Spectator Kosovo
Kosovo Spectator
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3 min readMar 26, 2019

The Constitutional Court of Kosovo, by majority, declared President Hashim Thaci’s referral, for an alleged conflict among his constitutional competencies and the Assembly, inadmissible for review on merits.

The Court concluded that although the case was submitted by an authorized party, namely the President — he did not accurately specify what conflict exists between his constitutional competencies and those of the Assembly, despite the Court’s request to clarify his Referral initially brought in the form of the constitutional question under Article 84 (9) of the Constitution.

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President claimed uncertainty over the constitutional competence for ratifying the Exchange of Letters between the Republic of Kosovo and the European Union. In this regard, the President claimed that it was not clear whether the exchange of letters should be ratified in the capacity of an International Agreement by the Assembly y the two-thirds of all MPs or should be considered as ratified upon signature of the President.

The Court stated that the President did not submit sufficient useful information about the “assumed” or “alleged conflict”, nor did he “accurately specify what conflict exists among the constitutional competencies” of the President and the Assembly.

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