The President, Vjosa Osmani, two months ago accepted the proposal of the Prosecutorial Council for the appointment of Blerim Isufaj as Chief State Prosecutor, while the Office of the Presidency at the time had announced that it would review and analyze in detail the received documentation and that will appoint Blerim Isufaj as Chief State Prosecutor, without consulting the organizations that have supervised his selection process.
Today in a statement for the Telegraph, the Office of the Presidency announces that during the review of the accompanying documentation, and consultations with the parties involved in monitoring the process, remarks were raised on procedural and principle violations, which may have affected the progress of the process and lack of important documents, for which the Presidency has requested clarifications.
"Some of these documents have been sent and some others will be sent in the meantime by the relevant institutions.
"Once all the documentation is completed, OPRK will continue with their further analysis", it is said in the statement of the Presidency.
On May 13, the Office of the President of Kosovo was notified through an official letter from the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo, that one of the candidates in this process has made an individual request to assess the constitutionality of this process and at the same time has requested the imposition of interim regarding the appointment of the Chief State Prosecutor.
"Given that this request has already been registered in the Constitutional Court and the same will be reviewed by this Court, OPRK considers that a potential decision of the President at this time, regarding the appointment or not of the candidate for Chief State Prosecutor, it would be premature.
Therefore, OPRK considers that it is necessary to wait for the decision of the Constitutional Court regarding this request, among other things to avoid any impact on the process of constitutional evaluation of the request in question ", it is said in the statement.
According to the Presidency of Kosovo, since the function of Chief State Prosecutor is already being exercised by the acting and does not remain vacant, OPRK considers that the decision to wait for the assessment of the Constitutional Court is reasonable and at the same time is not related to specific deadlines. kohore.
"Therefore, in these circumstances, the Office of the President will closely follow the developments related to this process and then will take the necessary actions according to the constitutional competencies of the President, based on the conclusions drawn from the analysis of the whole process ", it is further stated in the statement.
Otherwise, on April 8, the Office of the President of the Republic of Kosovo had accepted the proposal from the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council for the appointment of the Chief Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo.
In this regard, the Office of the President, immediately after receiving the proposal, has started consultations with local and international observers, to be further informed about the progress of the selection process of the proposed candidate.
In addition to analyzing the initial documentation submitted by the KPC, on 20 April the Office of the President also requested additional information from the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council regarding the process and procedures developed.
There have been numerous reactions in the country regarding this process of selection of the Chief Prosecutor, from non-governmental organizations and foreign embassies.
The Kosovo Prosecutorial Council in early April voted Blerim Isufaj as chief state prosecutor.
His vote at the head of the prosecution was opposed by foreign ambassadors in Kosovo and local organizations, as according to them the principles of a fair and meritorious process were ignored.
After the selection of Isufaj, the head of the European Union in Kosovo, Thomas Szunyog, the American ambassador Jeff Hovenier, the German ambassador, Jorn Rohde, etc. reacted.
Even the organizations that monitor the justice system had assessed that the process of selecting the new Chief State Prosecutor had a number of shortcomings which violated the integrity of the process.
/ Telegraphy /