Baraliu: Three possible decisions before the Constitutional Court of Kosovo

Professor of constitutional law Mazllum Baraliu says that once the temporary measure of the Constitutional Court expires on September 30, three different decisions can be expected: that the Assembly is constituted, that the process of constituting parliament must be renewed, or that snap elections should be called.

“We expect the Constitutional Court to make a decision as it deems appropriate. Either it will decide that the Assembly has been constituted, in which case a representative of the Serbian minority community can be elected at one of the upcoming Assembly sessions, or it will say that the process was not completed and that, due to some provision of the Rules of Procedure, which is a bylaw of the Assembly, that process needs to be renewed. The third solution would be to call snap elections,” Baraliu told Kosovo Online.

He notes that the Court’s decision should be known immediately after the expiration of the temporary measure, although, as he says, it could be delayed by a few days or even a week.

“That depends on them, but we should have a decision because this is a very urgent matter, the constitution of the institutions, since both the Assembly and the Government have been prevented from functioning,” Baraliu says.