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Constitutional Court's Decision on the Law on Protected Areas/Zhupa: Disaster for the Country

2025-07-31 20:13:00, Politikë CNA

Constitutional Court's Decision on the Law on Protected Areas/Zhupa:

Democratic Party MP Ina Zhupa has reacted to the Constitutional Court's decision that rejected the opposition's request for the Protected Areas Law.

Through a post on social media, Zhupa writes that from today there are no more protected areas and the law for these areas will be taken to Strasbourg.

Zhupa calls the enforcement of this decision a disaster for the country and a failure for the Constitutional Court.

Ina Zhupa's reaction

The Constitutional Court's tricks to wash its hands of the destruction that awaits protected areas in Albania will not stop us!

In Strasbourg for the defense of the country! From today we no longer have protected areas!

The 4-4 split, where 4 judges agree that there is a constitutional violation and 4 judges think there is not, leads to the dismissal of the request and why they cannot decide whether or not it is unconstitutional. This equality has been used in other cases as a ploy to decide without deciding, to preserve the government's status quo while making a fuss.

This practice is condemned by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, where in the case of Marini v. Albania, 2007 it states that "it concludes that the provision for the equal distribution of votes does not serve legal certainty and may deprive the complainant of the effective right to a final decision on his request to the Constitutional Court." 

They cannot hide behind the law, where there is no legal or moral reason why the four who think there is no violation should prevail over the four who argue that there is a violation?!

As for the above, we will go to Strasbourg to find the right denied by Albanian justice.

It is a disaster for the country that they leave an unconstitutional law in force and a failure for the Constitutional Court. The shame remains with the court, we are being overthrown without being overthrown with tricks that do not even respect European standards.

Despite this, I would also like to thank the environmental organizations for participating in every part of the process and for providing the court with materials on the European standards protected by the conventions to which Albania is a party. I also thank the two esteemed lawyers Marash Logu and Franci Nuri for their work.

Protected areas will be protected, because the constitution protects them and because we have an obligation to future generations to leave them a better Albania than today, and not one that has been concreted and destroyed by the greed of power's clients./ CNA





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