Augustin Palokaj, Brussels based correspondent of this daily, writes that if the joint efforts of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), President Atifete Jahjaga and the Constitutional Court manage to impede building of the institutions of Kosovo by the after election coalition, they will create a precedent in Europe. Many officials in Europe consider that crisis in Kosovo has gone too far and it has become difficult for any politician to come out clean from this crisis. Therefore, they do not want to interfere in this process, expecting that political actors in Kosovo would find a solution and prove that they are capable of governing their country which should be independent, at least in paper.
Even though no one has doubts that the relative winner of June elections was the pre-election coalition led by PDK, European diplomats are surprised that the right of the after election coalitions to build institutions is almost denied. This is unacceptable for Europe and diplomats claim that they would be horrified if this happened in their countries. “Imagine if such logic was used in France. The relative winner of the elections for the European Parliament there was the National Front,” Palokaj quotes a diplomat as saying. Even though they admit that they are not judicial experts, European diplomats say that they are surprised with the interpretations of the Constitutional Court.
Many western diplomats already admit that they do not see a solution of the created tangle in Kosovo that would save face of all politicians. Even though many of them already expressed suspicion regarding the independence of the Constitutional Court, they officially claim that “We have to appeal to respect the Constitutional Court, otherwise, we would have to admit complete failure of Kosovo and the international community despite everything that has been invested in Kosovo.”
“Of course we have to appeal to respect the courts. No matter what we think about them, we have to say so. This does not mean that we do not have our reserves on the work of those courts and we have warned several times against their politization,” Palokaj quotes European diplomats as saying.
