By: Andrea Lorenzo Capussela, Aidan Hehir, and Shpend Kursani

Two 2014 Constitutional Court decisions brought about a deepening political crisis in Kosovo. Putting PAN in opposition is the best way out.

When we were children, we all detested the kid who, having lost the game, grabbed the ball and took it home.

The similarity between the sore loser and current events in Kosovo scarcely needs explaining; as Kosovo’s parliament is unwilling to for vote their candidates for assembly speaker and prime minister, PAN are stopping parliament from doing anything.

The key difference here is that the kid owned the ball. PAN cannot claim, in legal terms at least, to “own” Kosovo’s political system. Of course, the root of the current impasse does derive from a legal source, namely the now infamous ruling of Kosovo’s Constitutional Court in 2014.  One of us discussed this matter three years ago, and another illustrated the absurdity of the ruling a few days ago.

In short, PAN is currently invoking both a law and the common interpretation of it. The first is fundamentally flawed, the second wrong.

See at: http://prishtinainsight.com/pan-detestable-kid/