Following the decision to consult experts before debating the Law on Languages, the Constitutional Court’s President, Darko Kostadinovski said there had been for a longer period of time “unexemplary, I can even call it political violence, influence, pressures, and, in some way, blackmails” against the institution.
“That’s the result of a bewildering absence of elementary political culture”, he added.
Kostadinovski also stated that nobody would be able to obstruct the rule of law through political influence and manipulations.
“Such a thing will not happen. The Constitutional Court has clear competences it draws from the Constitution”, he emphasized, adding that he didn’t want the Court’s decision to first consult experts over the Law on Languages to be seen by anybody as weakness or succumbing to some pressure.
Previously, Judge Dobrila Kacarska, the only one that hadn’t voted in favour of the decision, had asked, “Who are those experts that will tell us what is constitutional and what isn’t?”.
Judge Fatmir Skender, who’s a member of the Turkish ethnic community, shortly before the vote on the agenda, had asked for the Law item to be removed because, in his view, it would be desirable for all Judges to be in attendance, considering the absence of the two from the ethnic Albanian community, Osman Kadriu and Naser Ajdari. After his proposal had been rejected, he left the session. Kostadinovski adamantly said there was no ethnic outvoting within the Court.