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 laws on Trepča and strategic investments violate many articles of the Kosovo constitution and therefore one should expect the court to show impartiality and to repeal the laws, says the head of the parliamentary group of the Serbian List Slavko Simić.

Kosovo Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, said today that he would make efforts to coordinate positions with the opposition before resubmitting the border demarcation deal with Montenegro to the Kosovo Assembly. “I think we will meet with the opposition be it directly or in other ways with the participation of foreign ambassadors too. We will try to coordinate our positions before resending the agreement to the Assembly.

The head of the parliamentary group of the Serbian List Slavko Simić points that the Kosovo Assembly adopted another law, that is detrimental to the interests of the Serbian nation and Serbian property in Kosovo.

Simić told Tanjug that a law on strategic investments was adopted, which, he explained, fully enables the Kosovo Government to freely dispose of property that had previously identified as the ownership of the state or the society.

 Over three thousand people gathered today in Deçan/Dečani to protest against the decision of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo, which recognizes the property right to Deçan/Dečani Monastery property for over 24 hectares of land. The protest, organized by Deçan/Dečani mayor Rasim Selmanaj, and supported by all political forces of the municipality, ended peacefully. Selmanaj said at the protest that they will continue to protest in the future against this decision which according to him was illegal.

Municipal Assembly of Deçan/Dečani held today an extraordinary meeting regarding the decision of the Constitutional Court on the properties around Deçan/Dečani Monastery. Both the coalition government and opposition assessed that except for being illegal, shameful and discriminating for Deçan/Dečani citizens the decision of the Constitutional Court among other issues, impedes economic development of this city.

The leadership of Dečani/Deçan Municipality has called for protests on Thursday in that town due to the Constitutional Court’s decision that Visoki Dečani Monastery owns 24 hectares of land around that monastery, Pristina-based media informed.

The Mayor of Dečani/Deçan, Rasim Selmanaj, has called on protests through his Facebook account, and said that decision of the Constitutional Court is ‘unjust and influenced by politics’.

The paper runs an opinion piece by Andrea Lorenzo Capussela:

The constitutional court of 2016 has said that the constitutional court of 2011 was wrong. These are not the words one can read in the judgement that yesterday upheld Thaci’s election, but this is what they mean. For the court rejected the challenge against his election because it judged that the arguments of the opposition were plainly wrong, ‘manifestly unfounded’. But these were exactly the same arguments upon which in 2011 the court annulled Pacolli’s election.

The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), through a press release today reacted against the decision of the Constitutional Court to declare as inadmissible the opposition’s request to contest the election of Hashim Thaci as Kosovo President. “We consider that Hashim Thaci does not meet the main criteria for the country’s president, who is to be a factor of unity. We also consider that Thaci’s election was not in accordance with the Kosovo Constitution and we believe that today’s decision of the Constitutional Court was not fair,” notes the press release.

The Constitutional Court today has declared as inadmissible the opposition's request to contest the election of Hashim Thaci as Kosovo President.