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DP MPs are sleeping over the president's decree

2025-10-02 17:07:00, Opinione CNA

DP MPs are sleeping over the president's decree

President Bajram Begaj's decree, published on October 1, announced the date of the elections.

In fact, there was a debate about whether the date of the partial local elections should have been announced by President Begaj, when Erion Veliaj had filed an appeal with the Constitutional Court.

In fact, Veliaj's game was two-pronged. He was taking a letter to the Supreme Court that he had been dismissed, while he was appealing the Council of Ministers' decision to the Constitutional Court.

President Begaj responded and said that Veliaj's appeal should have been taken to the Administrative Court and not the Constitutional Court, and for this reason he could not block or postpone the election date.

Opposition experts say the president's decision is null and void. Constitutionalists claim that the president should have announced the election date, as Erion Veliaj has appealed the decision against him in the wrong place, since the decision is administrative and not constitutional.

This is because the dismissal was initiated by the Municipal Council due to the fact that Erion Veliaj has been absent from duty for more than 3 months, failing to show up.

 

It was then shaped by a decision of the Council of Ministers.

Now opposition MPs claim that the president has violated the Constitution. What does Article 90 of the Constitution say?

Article 90

2. The President of the Republic may be dismissed for a serious violation of the Constitution and for committing a serious crime. The proposal for the dismissal of the President in these cases may be made by no less than one quarter of the members of the Assembly and must be supported by no less than two thirds of all its members.

 

So ¼ of the Parliament should propose his dismissal if he has seriously violated the Constitution. But the opposition continues to deal with words, with nonsense, with gossip. Noise on the screens, but none of the deputies, not even the head of the Parliamentary Group, Gazment Bardhi, today of Saliu, yesterday of Luli, has made any move.

Not even one of the main lawyers of the Democratic Party of Albania, although the opposition seems to have no constitutionalists, has taken any legal procedural step within the Assembly to demand the dismissal of the president. After all, with 35 signatures, one can easily demand his dismissal, according to Article 90 of the Constitution, because the president declared the elections in violation of the Constitution or did not wait for the Constitutional Court's decision to dismiss Erion Veliaj.

Mr. Begaj has issued the decree, has raised the clear claim that the appeal filed by Veliaj in the Constitutional Court is wrong. There is also the fact that Erion Veliaj has accepted the dismissal in the High Court, on the other hand he has filed an appeal in the Constitutional Court.

The President is above the parties. He cannot be a judge. He simply decrees, issues decrees, and his duties are well-defined in the Constitution. If he has violated the Constitution, the opposition with ¼ of the deputies must demand his dismissal.

Then 2/3 are needed to dismiss him, or 93 mandates. As much as the opposition has, but at least it shows that it has the will to go to the end of the issue of the president's announcement of the election date, which for them is illegal and in violation of the Constitution, as the Constitutional Court should have been expected to speak about the appeal of Mr. Erion Veliaj, now former mayor of Tirana./ CNA





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