Speaker of Parliament Albulena Haxhiu said that when the session for the election of the President is called, all MPs have an "obligation" to be in the main hall of the Parliament and vote.
She urged that there be no "tendencies to block the election of the President."
"It is important that we have 80 votes in the box in the first two rounds, and in the third, 61 is enough. Let all parties be constructive. So, without proposals or tendencies to block the election of the President. The Constitutional Court's judgment requires that all deputies of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo be present and vote. So, the requirement that there should be 80 votes is related to this: because the Constitutional Court has forced the deputies to be at the level of their responsibility, that is, to be present and vote," she said at a press conference after a meeting of the Presidency of the Assembly.
Asked which verdict he was referring to when he said this, Haxhiu said it was about "the case of former President Pacolli."
"This has been repeated in other judgments regarding the constitution of the Assembly, that MPs must be there and vote," she said.
"Therefore, the requirement that 80 votes must be in the box, regardless of for, against or abstention in the first two rounds, is related to this, which is the obligation of the deputies to be in the hall and vote. Please see the judgments and see that all deputies have the obligation to be in the hall," Haxhiu added.
The parties have not yet reached an agreement on a presidential candidate, with Prime Minister Albin Kurti warning that there could be a party competition, with each of the main parties running its own candidate. In this case, if 80 MPs participated in the process in the first two rounds, someone could be elected in the third round with 61 votes, which LVV has.
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