Kosovo’s Minister of Justice Albulena Haxhiu has publicly questioned President Hashim Thaci not releasing the document with which he asked Kosovo’s junior coalition party LDK to nominate a candidate for Prime Minister who will form a new government.
She claimed that Thaci’s requests for a nominee that were sent to her party, Vetevendosja (LVV), hit the media before arriving at their offices, so the lack of transparency regarding Thaci’s request to LDK is suspect.
On April 23, President Thaci announced that, after a meeting with the parliamentary parties, he had asked the head of LDK, Isa Mustafa, to nominate a candidate.
That same day, LDK decided to nominate Avdullah Hoti, who served as co-Deputy Prime Minister under Kosovo’s Outgoing Prime Minister Albin Kurti until he was dismissed by the latter for voting against Kurti’s government in the vote of no-confidence that ousted it.
Haxhiu alleged that this reluctance to release the document means that the President is aware that his actions are arbitrary and willfully unconstitutional.
LVV claims that the president and all other parliamentary parties have been part of an unconstitutional process of consultation on whether to go to new elections of form a new government after the ousting of Kurti. The largest party in Kosovo maintains that the Constitution demands the president to call new elections, but Thaci claims he has the right to consult parties and check if and who is able to form a government.
Kurti has repeatedly asked Thaci in official letters and publicly on the legal basis for the president’s actions but has received no specific answer. LVV is expected to send Thaci’s invitation to LDK to nominate a candidate for prime minister to the Constitutional Court, hence their demand for the invitation to become public.
