Our initiative and request for an emergency session was sent to the Parliamentary Groups on April 9. On that date we sent our request by email and we tried to contact the heads of Parliamentary Groups of LDK and AAK in order to agree on a date for a session and about a decision or motion which would be voted in the session. Our goal was to organize an emergency session to hold accountable the Kosova Government, this time through the Minister of Internal Affairs, Bajram Rexhepi, for his irresponsibility regarding the grave situation in the north of Kosova.

We saw this session as a debate, and not the first or the last about the north, where we would discuss broadly and for a long time with all deputies, all those interested in the situation in the north and what Kosova’s institutions should do and to oblige Kosova’s institutions, in this case the executive, to undertake measures to protect citizens, especially Albanians who are being terrorized in that part, but also the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country in that part of Kosova’s territory.

Our request to Parliamentary Groups was not accepted on April 9 or today. It was accepted by just 20 deputies, all the deputies of Lëvizja VETËEVNDOSJE! plus other deputies from other Parliamentary Groups. In today’s session, we protested against this negligence, this indifference and lack of interest in the Parliament of the Republic of Kosova for what is happening in Kosova’s territory and to Kosova’s citizens. Our protest occurred during the entire time that it was attempted to hold a session and when it was attempted to normalize this session, thus when through various interventions it was attempted to hold the session as planned by the Government coalition, making the Parliament also appear lacking in responsibility toward Kosova’s current situation.

The Parliamentary Groups, during the entire time when we were expecting an answer from them, did not reply either YES or NO. They said, we are not in Prishtina, I’m talking to the head of the group, we can’t contact him now, but when they came to Prishtina, they refused to accept our request. Yesterday, in the meeting of the Presidency of the Parliament, we put forward our request against and it was refused; and today, in two urgent meetings of the Presidency, the Parliamentary Groups refused to sign this request and to hold an emergency session, with the above mentioned reasons. One of their arguments was that without the presence of the Prime Minister, there was no reason to hold a session, and there were other arguments, like there is no need to talk in the Parliament, because we just talk nonsense and the Government doesn’t respect our decisions, and on like this. The absence of the Prime Minister of Kosova, in Kosova, during this time when this terrorizing of citizens in the north is happening, and ethnic cleansing through terror is being organized by Serbia there through its structures, indicates clearly how irresponsible the Prime Minister is.

Some Parliamentary Groups with their intervention now aimed to transfer the irresponsibility of the Prime Minister and the Kosova Government in this situation, to Kosova’s Parliament.

The Parliament of the Republic of Kosova can be the Parliament of the Republic only when it truly is doing its duty to citizens of the country, those who created the Parliament, and who are in the end, its owners. Kosova’s Today, and in the past days, Kosova’s Parliament has behaved as if it wasn’t the Parliament of the Republic of Kosova, but just a form in the hands of a few individuals which discuss things there when they feel like it is necessary to discuss them, thus avoiding their individual responsibility and that of other political subjects toward citizens.

Today, they voted on a law for banks and micro-financial institutions, without the presence of the opposition deputies, and more importantly, without the required number of deputies to achieve a quorum to hold a session. In today’s session, 54 deputies voted for the law, 4 abstained and another was reported to have voted by hand, in the absence of a card. Therefore, there were 55 in favor, 5 abstentions and in total 59 deputies. This vote without quorum is contrary to regulations and contrary to all laws which regulate this issue. So this vote for this law occurred without the necessary quorum.