The Constitutional Court declares Vjosa Osmani's request on the appointment of CEC members inadmissible

2026-03-30 19:47:43 / KOSOVA ALFA PRESS

The Constitutional Court declares Vjosa Osmani's request on the appointment

The Constitutional Court has declared inadmissible the request of the President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, regarding the appointment of members of the Central Election Commission.

Osmani has requested an assessment of the conflict between constitutional powers under Article 113 of the Constitution, respectively between it and the parliamentary groups as bodies of the Assembly of Kosovo regarding the appointment of CEC members.

The court said that the required constitutional criteria regarding the establishment of a "conflict of constitutional powers" were not met.

The Constitutional Court indicated that in this specific case, the conflict of powers arose with a power of the president that is not defined by the Constitution, but by the Law on General Elections.

This is because this competence stems from paragraph 6 of Article 61 of the Law on General Elections.

The court also said that even in the part of the Constitution that deals with forms of government and the separation of powers, it is not specifically stated anywhere that the President of Kosovo has the authority to appoint members of the CEC.

"In the Court's assessment of the circumstances of the specific case, the President of the Republic, although a party authorized to raise issues of conflict of constitutional competences between herself and the Assembly, has not raised before the Court a conflict of 'constitutional competences', and consequently, the Court declares the request of the President of the Republic of Kosovo inadmissible," the decision stated.

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