The leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Lumir Abdixhiku, said after a meeting between the leaders of political parties that the Prime Minister of Kosovo, although he called the meeting to break the current political deadlock in Kosovo, has not changed his position.
"We participated with the best will to find a solution, although at the same time with the greatest shame that this entire meeting was more of a public farce than a substantive one. Unfortunately, our shame was confirmed," he said, after a meeting that lasted over two hours.
"Insisting on previous positions makes it impossible to move from this situation," he told the media.
Abdixhiku said that Kosovo will continue to remain in crisis, referring to the existing blockade on the constitution of the Kosovo Assembly.
The Assembly continues to be incompletely constituted as political parties have not reached agreement on the name proposed by the Vetëvendosje Movement – as the winner of the most votes in the elections – for the position of Speaker of Parliament, as well as on changing the voting method from open to secret.
Saturday's meeting took place after the Constitutional Court of Kosovo issued a ruling on Thursday that obliges MPs to finalize the constitution process by July 26th at the latest.
The deputies must elect the president and five vice presidents to finally constitute the new Assembly.
Only after the constitution of the Assembly can the new Government be formed.
Different interpretations of the Constitutional Court's decision
The deputies of the new legislature have held 38 sessions since April 15, in an attempt to constitute the Assembly, but have not been successful. For the parties that were in opposition in the previous assembly, the nominee for Speaker is a divisive figure, while the change in the voting method is unconstitutional.
Immediately after the publication of the ruling, political parties interpreted it differently.
Acting Minister of Finance, Hekuran Murati, has said that "secret voting does not violate the Constitution, therefore it is permitted."

The leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Memli Krasniqi, has insisted that "the agenda of the constitutive session cannot be changed at will and no one has the right to impose a secret ballot without a constitutional basis and without due process."
For the Democratic League of Kosovo, the decision has determined that the Vetëvendosje Movement "cannot block the constitution of the Assembly, that it must secure the majority of votes of the deputies or reach consensus with the parliamentary groups."
Ramush Haradinaj, chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, said that this party cannot help but express relief that its request for interpretation and resolution by the Constitutional Court has been "accepted and the Court has issued a decision on this issue, creating a legal basis to break the deadlock."
Hasani: The Court confirmed that secret ballot is unconstitutional.
The former President of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo, currently a professor of Law and International Relations at the University of Pristina, Enver Hasani, said in an interview with Radio Free Europe that the Constitutional Court's judgment has clearly confirmed that the procedure for the constitution of the Assembly is determined by the Constitution, the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly and parliamentary practices.
"…which means that what was done by Mr. [the chairman of the constitutive session, Avni] Dehari is completely unconstitutional. It means that there can be no deviation from the agreement reached on April 8 [the meeting of political parties to prepare the constitutive session]," said Hasani.
At the April 8 meeting, no decision was made for a secret ballot.
Professor Hasani says that the Constitutional Court decided on the entire procedure for the constitution of the Assembly, including the form in which voting takes place.
"It has decided on the entire procedure and has shown that the procedure should be the same, as stated in the Regulation, the Constitution and as has been decided after every parliamentary election in Kosovo so far. This is what the Court has said. And to date, there has never been a change in the agenda by the chairperson and no secret ballot has been held," he stressed./ REL