RTS: EULEX received court request, has no authority to arrest Laban (Radio Free Europe, Serbian media)
EULEX Mission stated it has received a request from the Serbian authorities in November last year to arrest Radomir Laban, who has been appointed by the Kosovo Assembly as a Constitutional Court judge, but the Mission given its current mandate cannot undertake such action, Serbian media reported.
President Thaci to seek additional information on Radomir Laban (RFE)
President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci will not decree the newly-elected Constitutional Court judge, Radomir Laban, until a full verification process is carried out by judicial authorities. In a response to the paper, the office of President Thaci said that Laban’s decreeing will not take place at this time due to raised concerns about his past. Laban’s appointment, put forward by the Serbian List, was approved by the Assembly of Kosovo last week.
They push defeated ones in the municipality of Partes (Vecernje Novosti)
Daily based in Belgrade Vecernje Novosti today writes, in a article entitled "The Pristina Plan: They push defeated ones at the helm of Partes," that if the Constitutional Court of Kosovo is guided by political rather than legal arguments and it supports the Appeal Panel's request for the repetition of the vote in the municipality of Partes, it is possible that the protest will be radicalized.
Constitutional Court overturns appointment of Supreme Court president (Kallxo)
Kosovo’s Constitutional Court has overturned appointment of Enver Peci to head the Supreme Court and called on the judicial council to launch a new hiring process. The decision came after Valdete Daka, currently head of the Central Election Commission (CEC), submitted a complaint to the Constitutional Court claiming that Peci’s appointment was marred with irregularities.
The Law on strategic investments is in accordance with the Constitution (Radio KIM)
Opposition parties take law on KLA veterans to Constitutional Court (RTK/Klan Kosova)
NISMA expected to address Constitutional Court on President Thaci’s involvement in Drenas municipal elections? (Indeksonline)
The news website reports that the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) is planning to seek an opinion from the Constitutional Court of Kosovo on President Hashim Thaci’s involvement in the municipal elections in Drenas/Glogovac. NISMA officials however have neither denied nor confirmed the information. Citing unnamed sources, Indeksonline reports that NISMA is planning to hire an international lawyer for the matter. The same sources said NISMA have collected sufficient material which they hope will prove to the court that President Thaci is violating the Constitution.
EULEX judge considers Trepca law to be unconstitutional (Kallxo/Telegrafi)
Rašić: Constitutional Court institutionalized (KIM radio)
"The Constitutional Court maybe unwittingly had become an instrument of political decisions," told RTV KIM, Deputy Nenad Rašić about the decision of the Constitutional Court to reject the Serbian List's request to assess the constitutionality of the Trepča law.