Member of the Parliament of Kosovo Nenad Rašić says that Kosovo’s constitutional court refused to deal with the request of the Serbian List for review of the decision on the abolition of basic pensions to certain categories, and that it did not made any decision on the matter.
The Constitutional Court refused to deal with the request, because the decision of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare on the abolition of the basic pension was not a law that was passed in parliament but because it was the act of the Government of Kosovo, explains Rašić.
According to him, it is about a ”rather dry, technical and legal conclusion”, which the court sent to the deputies.
“From the technical side, they have found the reason to say that they will not deal with the case, although we in the explanation and appeal have specified all the reasons why we think this act violates the constitutional rights,” said Rašić.
Rašić says that in this process before the Constitutional Court of Kosovo no one was defeated, but also much less that someone has won.
He said that according to the law on pensions, before the decision of the ministry and government, there were three criteria for obtaining these pensions – that a person has 65 years as evidenced by the Kosovo ID card, bank account and registered place of residence in certain municipalities in Kosovo.
Rašić says that those three criteria nothing can change and that “a person can live or can be forcibly relocated to any other municipality, wherever in the Balkans and under the law he deserves his pension”.
He says that the Ministry by the act does not respect the law and that, therefore, “about 30 per cent of persons are not receiving the pension.”
