The Constitutional Court issued a sharp statement to everyone trying to use it for day-to-day political score-settling: „The Court will not bow to any political pressure, influence or attempt at discreditation."

The Court reminded that under Article 112 of the Constitution its rulings are final, enforceable and generally binding on everyone. In other words - no matter how much someone dislikes a ruling, it stands, full stop.

The reaction was triggered by several things the parties politicized - the signing of three memoranda with the constitutional courts of Kosovo, Egypt and Serbia, the chairing of the Balkan Forum of Constitutional Courts, and the rulings on renaming streets in Čair. The Court stressed that it judges only constitutionality and legality, regardless of the political content of the question.

A message worth hearing: the Court called on political actors to show „greater constitutional and political culture" and to work in the interest of citizens, rather than settling party scores on the back of the rule of law.

This is what rarely happens here - an institution publicly telling the parties to keep their hands off. The question is whether those messages will be respected, or whether the Constitutional Court will remain just another institution shouting into the void while politics does as it pleases. The court's independence isn't defended with statements, but by no one daring to break it. And that remains to be seen.