PDK considers the Assembly unconstituted and the Government unconstitutional: We will turn to the Constitutional Court

The Democratic Party of Kosovo considers the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo unconstituted and the government voted today unconstitutional.

The head of the PDK parliamentary group, Arian Tahiri, and MP Përparim Gruda announced at a press conference that the PDK will turn to the Constitutional Court regarding all violations committed continuously by Vetëvendosje since the certification of the June 7 election results.

Tahiri said Kurti has played with institutions all this time, disregarded the Constitution and the decisions of the Constitutional Court.

“Today’s proceedings and their conclusion that the Assembly is constituted are beyond constitutional deadlines, and everything that comes out of this Assembly we will send for a legality review to the Constitutional Court. Kosovo must function according to the constitutional order, not according to an order that Kurti is trying to create for his political interests. PDK experts are already working on preparing the case, which will be addressed to the Constitutional Court, for the process as a whole,” he added.

According to the PDK, Kurti and LVV have violated constitutional deadlines for narrow political interests and have tried to play with political figures of opposition parties.

“As the Democratic Party of Kosovo, we made our position public even in the session a few days ago, when the PDK deputy speaker was not voted,” Tahiri emphasized.

Meanwhile, MP Përparim Gruda said Vetëvendosje cannot violate constitutional deadlines and then take away a constitutional right from the PDK.

“The Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo and the Constitutional Court’s judgments in cases KO124/25, KO193/25 and KO196/25, as well as KO265/25, have clearly determined that the Assembly cannot be considered constituted without electing all of its deputy speakers. In this case, the Assembly is not constituted, since the deputy speaker from the ranks of the Democratic Party of Kosovo has not been elected. The misinterpretation being made of the Constitutional Court’s judgment, specifically the part determining the legal consequences of not exercising the right to propose the Assembly’s deputy speaker, cannot be applied in the case of the PDK,” he said.

Gruda listed three arguments regarding the violations the PDK will address to the Constitutional Court:

“First, the PDK has not refused to exercise its constitutional right to propose the deputy speaker of the Assembly. On the contrary, in the official letter we sent we explicitly clarified that we are not giving up our right to propose, but are temporarily refraining from exercising it until the Constitutional Court clarifies the constitutional circumstances created around the constitution of the Assembly. There is an essential difference between giving up a constitutional right and temporarily suspending its exercise due to a constitutional dispute requiring interpretation by the Constitutional Court. Second, the constitutional deadline for constituting the Assembly ended on August 7. Then, Vetëvendosje itself set September 6 as a political deadline. Neither of these deadlines was respected. Despite this, we also took part in two sessions called outside these deadlines, showing willingness for the Assembly to be constituted. In both cases, instead of constituting the Assembly, there were only procedural maneuvers and absurd political games by Vetëvendosje, which made completing the process impossible. The constitutional order cannot function according to a standard where one party violates all deadlines, calls sessions whenever it wants, does not complete the constitution when we take part, and in the end calls another session outside every deadline and declares that the Assembly has supposedly been constituted without us. Third, such an interpretation would create an extremely dangerous constitutional precedent: the party that caused and continued the violation of constitutional deadlines would legally benefit precisely from its own violation. Instead of the violation producing constitutional accountability, it would be used as a basis to deny another parliamentary party a right guaranteed to it by the Constitution itself,” the PDK said.