The current President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, has proposed constitutional amendments for the election of the President, in the final hours of the end of her constitutional mandate, to change the rules of the election of the President. Her proposal, happily accepted by Albin Kurti, is a change of the rules of the game during the game and is as unconstitutional as the entire attempt to violate the Constitution and turn the process of electing the President into an electoral competition.
Written by: Mero Baze
Kosovo has the milder formula for electing the president, just like Albania after the 2009 changes, by electing him with a simple majority in the third round. The Constitution of Kosovo has thus defined the election of the president by balancing the powers, taking into account the minority in the Assembly and giving priority to the parliamentary Republic rather than the presidential one.
It is not wrong to be a presidential republic or to elect the president by the people, but not as a personal need, or worse, as a strategy to take all the powers, but within the framework of a comprehensive constitutional arrangement.
Vjosa Osmani's proposal to change the rules for electing the President in the last minutes of her mandate does not make Vjosa Osmani president, but even if it did, it would make her a bad president. Kosovo does not need a president who thinks that the Constitution is a cookbook, where she must find a recipe for the dishes that are served to her.
This president of Kosovo is elected with this Constitution that is in place. If Kosovo is going to change its Constitution, there are procedures for how the Constitution is changed in the next Assembly so that the new rules apply to the next president.
The opposition should not fall into this trap and join the initiative for constitutional changes to the way the president is elected. The time to elect the president expires today at midnight and the political class must bear the cost of the failure to elect the president and must fight to elect him as soon as possible.
Now Kosovo's only chance is new elections, which will not produce any new reality, but should produce a new responsibility of the political class in Kosovo to make the country a president with the rules they have agreed upon.
Vjosa Osmani is free to prove herself as a politician in these elections and get a majority there to dictate the choice of the president, if she can. But the horses are not changed in the middle of the race, or even today one could say at the end of it. At the end of the race, only the winners on the podium are changed.
With this proposal, the winner of this race is Albin Kurti, as he needs a presidential race in his name to make it easier to win the presidency with 40 percent of the vote.
Vjosa Osmani's proposal shows that she is angry at the abandonment of her ally Albin Kurti, but anger is not a strategy. Anger does not go away by changing the Constitution, but by obeying it. This gesture diminishes her as a figure worthy of being president of Kosovo, as it shows that she is not a candidate for president of the Republic, but demands a Republic for her to be president. At all costs.
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