According to the Government's Draft Law Program, more than 35 draft laws should be processed for review and approval in the Assembly before June 30. However, with the current situation in the Assembly, their fate is unknown. While the blockade continues in the seventh month of 2025, organizations that monitor the work of the Assembly assess that this year has already been a failure, in terms of legislation and oversight.
More than 35 draft laws would need to be approved by the Government and sent to the Assembly for review before June 30th.
According to the Government's Draft Law Program 2025-27, by the end of last month, draft laws such as: the Labor Code, the Civil Code, the Judicial Council and the Prosecutorial Council, the legal profession, the protection of competition, energy and electricity, etc. should have been approved by the executive branch.
The blockade in relation to the establishment of the new legislature of the Assembly – consequently the new Government – according to the Kosovo Institute for Justice, beyond "damaging the constitutional order" affects the quality of life of citizens.
"If the Kurti government is re-elected, then it can proceed with these draft laws, but it is very easy for these draft laws to not be processed by other parties if they come to power. However, it is important that the consequences of not constituting the Assembly are extremely large and affect the lives of citizens. Here we connect that there are over 10 international agreements waiting to be ratified," stated Melos Kolshi, senior researcher at IKL.
Stressing that the suspension of a multitude of laws has financial consequences, the Democratic Institute of Kosovo estimates that this year has already been wasted.
"We are already late in reviewing the legislative plan, whether of the government that is expiring, but also of any government that could hypothetically come after the establishment of the Assembly and normally the consequences are great... Whenever the president is elected and the Assembly is constituted, in my opinion, the year 2025 is a failed year both in the legislative sense and in the supervisory sense, because we are late," declared Vullnet Bugaqku, senior researcher at KDI.
Speaking about the consequences, Bugaqku singled out the transfer from legislature to legislature of the Civil Code and the constitutional amendments on "vetting" in the judiciary, as two of the main issues remaining pending from the previous legislature.
"This makes it vacant or, let's say, makes it impossible to exercise legislative power, as the main mandate of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo is. And, for 7 or 8 months, if the state remains without a parliament that reviews, controls, and in some cases proposes and drafts laws itself, then this is a great challenge for democratic and parliamentary life in Kosovo. When the Assembly is passive or on pause, let's say, the citizens themselves suffer," said Vullnet Bugaqku, senior researcher at KDI
The latest decisions of the Assembly date from the beginning of December 2024, most of which have been contested in the Constitutional Court./RTV Dukagjini
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