Kërçeli: Kurti’s offer is the last chance to avoid elections

Vetëvendosje Movement MP Ilir Kërçeli has said there is still no notification about holding the session to elect the president, while declaring that the offer made by Prime Minister Albin Kurti to the PDK aims to avoid new elections.

Kërçeli, on “FIVE” on Dukagjini, stressed that Kurti’s conference produced an offer which, according to him, represents the last opportunity to overcome the institutional crisis.

“For a session on the president we still have no notification, but we had a meeting of the Parliamentary Group and for that reason I am at the premises of the Assembly of Kosovo. More or less, those were the agreements discussed in the leadership and the Parliamentary Group of VV. From the prime minister’s conference there was also a final offer on how to get out of this institutional crisis and how to save ourselves from a round of new elections that are unnecessary for the citizens of the Republic of Kosovo,” Kërçeli said.

Commenting on the PDK’s position on participating in the session for the president, Kërçeli said that if that party’s MPs do not stay in the hall, then the country will go to elections.

As for the Law on the Specialist Chambers, the VV MP defended his party’s position on the two-reading approval procedure, also referring to a Constitutional Court decision following a case from 2024.

Kërçeli said he sees no difference if the second vote on the law takes place on Thursday, arguing that by then the situation of the former KLA leaders in The Hague is not expected to change.

Furthermore, he said that a second-reading vote without 72 hours passing would, according to him, give the Serb List the opportunity to send it to the Constitutional Court.

“As for the Law on the Specialist Chambers, yesterday it was the first item and we all voted for amending and supplementing this law. However, we must make it clear that it was precisely the Democratic Party of Kosovo which, in 2024, in the session of 5 December, with the laws that passed on that date, went to the Constitutional Court, where it was made clear to us that derogation from procedures cannot happen earlier than 72 hours and that MPs must be given time to read the materials; and if we were to act on the basis of emotions and pass it in a second reading, we would give the Serb List the opportunity to send this law to the Constitutional Court and strike it down, and all the MPs’ work would go to waste — I don’t know where the difference is if it is voted on in a second reading on Thursday, and I don’t believe that by Thursday there would be anything that would change the situation of the former KLA leaders in The Hague. First, by Thursday we should vote for the president, and on Thursday vote on the law in a second reading, and then the new President would decree it,” Kërçeli said.