Bardhi "clashes" with Spiropali/ "He is dragging out the procedure for Xhaçka's mandate"

2024-08-08 17:21:00, Politikë CNA

Bardhi "clashes" with Spiropali/ "He is dragging out the

Chairman of the DP Parliamentary Group, Gazment Bardhi

The chairman of the DP Parliamentary Group, Gazment Bardhi, reacted to the order of the Speaker of the Assembly, Elisa Spiropali, regarding the mandate of Olta Xhaçka.

Xhaçka announced the meeting of the Council of Legislation to review the mandate, although the opposition had requested the calling of an extraordinary session of the Assembly

Based on this, Bardhi has described Spiropal's order as unconstitutional, which delays the procedure for removing the SP deputy's mandate.

Full statement:

The President of the Assembly has approved an unconstitutional order. The President of the Assembly has the constitutional and legal obligation to call the extraordinary session of the Assembly within 3 days from the submission of the request of 1/5 of the deputies, in order to implement without delay the decision of the Constitutional Court.

Meeting of the Council of Legislation, in addition to the unnecessary delay of the procedure for removing the mandate of Olta Xhaçka, was also considered an unconstitutional procedure by the Constitutional Court. In paragraph 61 of decision no. 55/2024 of the Constitutional Court it is noted that: "The Court assesses that the Assembly has not acted in accordance with the Constitution as long as it has submitted the issue of the execution of its decision to the evaluation of the Council for Legislation and the Council for Mandates, structures in which the parliamentary majority questioned the binding power of the Court's decision, called an external expert and then assessed that the case should be forwarded to the plenary session for a vote".

The 2-year delay of this case, the non-implementation of the two decisions of the Constitutional Court is political protection from the justice of a deputy of the majority, a close associate of Edi Rama. It is unacceptable the political protection and obstruction of justice that the majority is doing in the case of former minister and MP Olta Xhaçka, ignoring the Constitution and preventing the implementation of two decisions of the Constitutional Court.

We strongly condemn the standard "one justice for Edi Rama and another justice for all others". In every democratic country, the implementation of the decisions of the Constitutional Court is mandatory and the foundation on which a legal state is built./ CNA